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[โ€“] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Except most of them will never be "there" without support, but also because the commercial options have the resources to out develop them at every turn.

And the truth is, maybe it needs to be more about ideals. Not caring about them is why we are seeing the current trends we're seeing: people put convenience above choosing to support something they believe in. That's why Chromium is everything now. That's why Windows is increasingly shitified and anti-competitve with no serious consequences. That's why a significant number of people that opposed Spez are still on Reddit fulltime. If the average user was a bit more idealistic, maybe there'd actually be a movement to push back on these trends. But they don't.

[โ€“] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My legitimate theory is that the better the average quality of life is, the more people value practicality over ideals. As long as you can get up, drive to work, come home, and watch football/play CoD/whatever, people have very little incentive to care. Also we're a bit more sane now. We're a long way off from that Roman guy who made a "no weapons or you get executed" rule, accidentally walked into the forum with a knife, and stabbed himself to death right then and there.