I've made websites and web apps for my whole life and making them isn't the hard part for me. The biggest roadblock especially today (unlike in the early 2000s) is getting people to even try out my creations.
For instance, I coded a Discord alternative from scratch. I never use AI, pre-made building blocks or any modern crap, I do everything by hand. My hobby is making barebones replicas of the social media services people use but without algorithms and dopamine crap. Just the functionality and the style. That's what I want, but nobody else seems to want that. It's heartbreaking when even my own friends are like
>hnnnggh I really don't wanna make an account even though it takes 5 seconds
>fuuuuck I dont wanna start using any new service
>I will literally not budge from Discord never ever ever

I still struggle to understand how the human brain works. Every day I watch people spend 12 hours doing absolutely fuck all on social media but then they say making an account on my site takes too much time. These same people will give out their bank card info and passport to Discord just to keep using it. They're willing to pay for Nitro or look at full screen ads every two days. They're fine with their data being stolen and having zero privacy whatsoever. Most of all, they're fine with letting corpo take hold of our world and our way of life like unelected politicians.
I used to ask people for advice on how to get my projects off the ground. I no longer do. People themselves don't understand how their brain works so it's pointless. They will tell me to do x, then they will use sites that do y. Help me understand. Why is it that I see something but nobody else sees the same thing. People will always tell me I'm just being autistic / an asshole or whatever, but I literally just want a world where websites aren't billion dollar dopamine machines where I'm the product.

>>18079
nga go back to reddit you spam bot

>>18080
wat thats mean :(

If you made your own version of distro and claim it to be what to it is then provide some information, name, and screenshots otherwise you're simply just larping

>>18079
>I still struggle to understand how the human brain works
People are lazy, it's literally as simple as that, and everyone is like that to a certain extent. If Bob has been using a piece of software for years, then it doesn't matter if a new better one comes up, he will continue to use it simply because from his point of view there's no reason not to. I know I'm oversimplifying, but you get the idea. Discord is an interesting example because as a "social" type of program people use it to talk with different people across many different servers, someone who is really invested on it won't simply change over to a different platform because that'd involve moving over all of these connections, which in many cases is impossible. I'm not even taking into account the fact that many people don't care at all about any sort of privacy concern, no matter how outrageous it may seem.

tl;dr normies don't care. The only way you could make them switch over to something else would be to literally force them, but even then they won't be able to understand why the new platform/software is better, they would just use it because they were forced to.