JA WestenbergFeb 1, 2024

Modern work:

you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...

Show threadIαη 🍺Feb 2, 2024

@Daojoan
The digital information world has been hijacked by business greed. Resulting in poor UX.
Each app has a new UI to learn and it's own text editor and information structure. Just how many text editor interfaces do you use? There are different editors in email, chat, office, social media, notes, forums, spreadsheet, bug trackers, browsers etc. It could be like smartphones, where all apps share 1 keyboard.

Open standards could change all this.

Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Feb 2, 2024
@ianp5a yup. That's true even more broadly - I wrote this to help make the case: https://openstandards.nz
@Daojoan
The case for Open Standards | Open Standards NZ

Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Feb 2, 2024
@ianp5a at least with #libre/#FOSS apps (unlike proprietary), there's no incentive *not* to use open standards, and, for the most part, they do. Like here in the #Fediverse. Everything proprietary is on a one-way trajectory towards #enshittification. @Daojoan
Show threadIαη 🍺Feb 2, 2024
@lightweight @Daojoan
I don't think there are open standards for most information.
So people resort to proprietary standards like Microsoft, or plain text, that needs clever guessing to retrieve information, or even discard the information entirely.
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Feb 2, 2024
@ianp5a we have to convince governments that #BigTech corporations are the enemy of democracy. I think we're seeing the EU slowly realising how entirely their tech procurement has compromised their sovereignty. Combined with gov'ts recognising #libre software as critical digital infrastructure & funding it, we just might start changing the direction. @Daojoan
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿
@ianp5a I'm hoping more people in the EU watch this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg@[email protected]
Feb 2, 2024 at 7:52amWeb