@yaxu strongly disagree! there are huge incentives for designers and product people to get involved with volunteering, just like programmers.

and yes accessibility is a huge factor of this. getting design and product-oriented people involved means software becomes accessible to more people

@inscript you should meet some designers!

@inscript the facetious division I'm making is in resistance to the status quo arrogance / view that diminishes creative design and product work while boosting the importance of programming. I'm challenging that narrative by inverting it. that imagined inverted world sounds surprisingly not-so-bad, which calls into question our current priorities

@inscript
- programmers designing things is a *negative* side effect.
- from my experience, "scrappy" is also rare in the design world.

we gave the tech nerds too much power

"[just] use IRC"
"[just] use a forum"
"[just] self-host by shushing into your prill scropt. it's easy you [just] prantiss a few cuntwobs. what's the big deal? there's no excuse. [just] spin up a brosh instance."

@inscript designers are not vernacular programmers. programmers are vernacular designers.

these toots were inspired by checking out a load of discord "alternatives"

writing code should not be the primary way of contributing to free open source software

free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people