People are not tolerating to the regime.

We are helping individual to contribute on open source project.

We should punish the government, but not individual participation in global community.

I’m not saying it has to be GNOME or Teams. Gnome is too limiting (I also don’t like it), while Teams is… whatever.

It’s just have to be great for advance user, while easy to user for first-time user.

Let me give you some example of bad UX, that fixed in other software:

• Gradient effect is not editable once you deselect it, you have to recreate it from scratch (you can edit it on Photoshop or Affinity Photo)
• There’s should be option to adjust font size with resizing text box instead of trying to input every single number (it’s possible on every major software)
• Drawing outside the layer does not retain its information (CSP retains the information)
• NDE effects cannot be drag and drop between layer for faster editing
• Rotating text cannot be edited (just saw the dev talk about it on Discord)

Almost all of the UX problems here are recognized by the dev, even actively discussed on how to fix them!

You can make advance application while still catering towards newbies! For example: Clip Studio Paint. They have multiple layout and UI for different use case and audience.

It seems your context is specific. If a country is actively hostile against other countries, occupying territories, forbidding people to visit the dangerous area is a common sense.

Making individual user to not be able to contribute to GitHub literally does not do anything towards the regime. In fact, it’s just making the regime to make alternative platform that controlled by the government to censor the voice. The people basically living on their own bubble and potentially disconnected to the world.

Oh, outside Western sphere (including my coountry), there are a lot of tech entusiast that also a Microsoft "fans, "the same way Apple fans are exist.

Also, in my experience, despite I hate Microsoft, I found so many niche open source project that almost never in any English FOSS discussion. Especially, project that belongs to Indonesian, Chinese, or Japanese FOSS community. Example: video player with Japanese learning capabilities, video downloader for specific Chinese video hosting, or anime tracker with Chinese site as its database.

I wish FOSS community will provide alternative to social experience and recommendation like GitHub. With ActivityPub :)

Sanctions does not work, the regime still stays while average people suffers and even it harder to even escape the country. North Korea still exist. Belarus still exist. Eritrea still exist.

American sanctions also only targeted towards anti-America countries. If the regime is pro-America, it’s not gonna be sanctioned.

If you actually support democracy, let’s support the people by giving them platform in the international community. Making them be able to showcase their voice without hijacked by external political force.

That’s still not as intuitive as actual shape tools on any other software.

If average casual user get confused to it, then it’s a bad UX.

That’s not actual shape tool.

Shape created by shape tools should be always editable. Using ellipse selection tool means the circle is rasterized.

Any social media technically host the same variation of people. It can be good or bad depends of your social circle and what kind of people you follow. Even fediverse has its own bubble of hostile people.

Not as comprehensive as Facebook Groups.

Facebook strength is having big community from Asia and Africa. While fediverse is mostly Westerner (and isolated Japanese). Unless people from those continents move here in huge wave, I don’t think Facebook will get replaced.

Mastodon is not valid recommendation for them, as these people doesn’t even use Twitter or even hates them.

…and Facebook Groups.

A lot of people simply don’t realize that a lot of traditional community, especially more niche are moving to Facebook. There’s no even Reddit alternative for them.

From fried chicken cooking, big tree photography, McDonalds toys collector, to local history archiver.

It’s harder to convince them here, unless there are Facebook Group alternative for fediverse.

To be fair, MS Paint (and other Paint-alike) software shape tools is barebone. No NDE and just direct to canvas/layer. (which perfectly fine for its scope)

Using select tools to make shape is not actual Shape tools.

As I stated previously, GIMP developers list Shape Tools in the roadmap.

Also, why not use those programs you listed instead, if GIMP isn’t getting the job done.

Hoping our tool to be more capable is just a normal thing. I want GIMP to be the best image editor, I want Krita to be the best painting and animation software, and so on.

Wrong.

“GIMP is a cross-platform image editor … Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done.” - gimp.org

Shape tools is a universal basic tool for any software that handle some sort of image creation or addition.

Photo editing, general image editing, painting software, page layout design, vector design, PDF editor, all of them have one.

Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Photopea, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo, … all of them have shape tools.

Heck, even Microsoft Excel and Word even have one.

EDIT: Shape tool is planned, not yet WIP. Source: GIMP Roadmaps

Majority of area in the world does not recognize it as negative thing.

Even for English, English itself is diverse language. Singaporean English, Indian English, Asian English, definitely not negative in all of them.

Forcing one standard of language as a universal is a bad precedent for language diversity.

Give us good yuri manga recommendation 👀

As far as I know, those stuff only available in African countries and India. Not Indonesia.

Lemmy.id For other active fedi instance: fedi.my.id (Mastodon), Misskey.id (mostly tech and ACG culture)

Fediverse promotion in some part in third world country (including mine) is hard.

Most people just want free and easy access to the web with their existing account

There used to be Lemmy Indonesia as well. Just like almost all Indonesian fediverse instance, all of them are dead (except Misskey and that new Mastodon instance barren of any user).

“General” Facebook user base is not a thing.

Every social media has its own varied bubble on them.

Even Fediverse has its own bubble of malice people.

I still use Facebook because all local community on them (people never heard Reddit or even Lemmy), and people are generally nice to each other. Shares hobby and stuff just like Lemmy and the entire fediverse.

Still, I still regularly on Facebook to recommend people to join local Misskey and Mastodon instance.