Humans are emotional beings and often make decisions based on emotions rather than logic. Expecting users to migrate to a platform that doesn’t manipulate their emotions just because it’s open source is delusional. Therefore, I believe we should prioritize adding better features that have proven to be effective on other platforms rather than trying to emulate Reddit, Twitter, etc., to make the platforms as pleasant to use as we can, even if it’s only for a fraction of the users.

Here is a video that I like on this topic.

Context of what gave me the idea for this post.

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    2 years ago

    Depends. I don’t think “successful” means the same as “having the most users”.

    The Linux community is awesome and we are only 3%. It’s already enough users for Linux to be amazing.