who is this directed at https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/117124962899839203 users can't choose the software. we can fix electron but only by fixing the web. but that's too hard and nobody wants to do that
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@hipsterelectron Some programmers listen to Aurynn! Hopefully they’ll listen this time. https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/117125290325261691
@samir i think that sounds like backpedaling after getting called out. it's terribly common on fedi to advocate for individual dissent as a solution to embedded power structures and it's unfortunately still popular to do so. i think it's worth calling out as such until people learn to stop saying it
@samir "i can't control what decisions signal makes" is its own problem. nobody has control over the decisions others make without their consent and that includes programmers themselves
@hipsterelectron Not convinced. I immediately read it as directed towards programmers, not end-users. I think it is unclear, but that doesn’t mean we can ascribe intent.
@samir willing to be wrong here
@hipsterelectron @samir I also read it as directed to programmers. Users don’t know what Electron is. I personally feel vindicated here as to me Electron was always a very bad idea that on one hand worked against PWAs and on the other… Just ewww
@hipsterelectron @samir I remember, but I still didn’t like the idea for technical reasons. I’m super into editors and after trying Atom for a some minutes went back to Neovim 😅 mostly because I’m convinced buffets are better than tabs.
But even if it was great to build an editor on top of it, using it for every single “desktop” app instead of the users actual browser seemed backwards already
@hipsterelectron @samir but that flexibility is only valuable for technical users. And from where I was, Electron looked as a tool to be lazy and build one shitty app for every platform, so cheap, instead of on app per platform that’s great, expensive. And I still prefer the latter, even when that battle was lost
