Ariadne Conill 🐰Dec 17, 2022
imo the problem with the fediverse is that there's all these apps that emulate other proprietary apps.
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@ariadne reminded of that essay where free software finds it easier to clone existing things than come up with something new
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Show threadChristopher SnowhillDec 17, 2022
@cb @ariadne I dunno whether it's better or worse, that I wanted to find a macOS audio player that did things I wanted, so I looked for an Open Source project, and found one, but it was dead. Then I ended up spending a decade keeping it alive. Didn't just settle for cloning something, I took something that already existed and forked it because it was discontinued. Hmm, I hope I'm leaning towards better here.
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@kode54 @ariadne that’s what i also did; if it didn’t exist i would have done things differently than what i inherited
Show threadChristopher SnowhillDec 17, 2022
@cb @ariadne In my case, I don't think I'd have ever had the spoons to start something from scratch and actually make it as usable as this thing was to begin with. The closest I got was a terrible Qt app that just opened one file at a time, and played it forever until stopped.