Those stuff doesn’t even seem remotely same tho, different type of design style.

All kawaii FOSS logos are common Akiba-kei moe logo style.

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There’s Mozc, but it’s oudated and no one maintain it anymore.

LibreOffice is good alternative if you are not heavily dependant on unique MS Office features, especially Excel.

OnlyOffice is better if you’re looking for MS Office document compability.

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Read my comment again :)

Design =/= painting.

Krita is excel at painting and illustrating, and fully alternative to CSP, Medibang, and other painting software.

If you want to use it as general design software, as in layout design, photo manipulation, poster creation, etc, Krita doesn’t even have a lot of comparable features compared to its alternative simply because it was not designed as design software.

Krita is only usable for basic design stuff. (EDIT: DESIGN =/= PAINTING)

It’s mainly alternative to CSP, Medibang, and other painting software.

Definitely not Adobe Photoshop or Affinity Photo alternative.

Unfortunately, none of them are as easy to use and full featured as Affinity softwares.

As much as I love FOSS, Affinity dev did a great job to enhance UX for first-timer, easier than Adobe or FOSS alternative.

Not to mention, so many new feature than any competitor doesn’t have yet.

The closest one in usability and innovation is Inkscape.

GIMP, Scribus, and Krita, are not even close. (Krita is not even direct alternative to them)

I regularly uses Affinity software, Krita, and GIMP.

Affinity software is way better designed and more feature-packed for graphic design. Affinity software avoids a lot of complexity of Adobe and make it easier for newcomer.

GIMP is not even close.

Krita on other hand is only suitable for basic image editing, not full-blown design software. It’s created for drawing-related stuff after all… You only can recommend Krita for people that looking for Clip Studio Paint, Medibang, or ibis Paint alternative.

31000 on each direction.

There’s distinction between targeted ads and community ads.

Mainstream internet is bad for targeted ads and for-profit site that plaster ads as maximum as possible.

Fediverse instance like Misskey.io runs ads, but all of them community ads. Letting their community promote their indie games, manga serialization, artbook release, online event gathering, etc.

Among every server that “do just fine,” there are more instances that are just gone for not having proper funding, especially for non-Western instance where paying for social media in not a common thing. I’m from Indonesian, and almost every Indonesian instance are cease to exist except for Misskey.id.

While Mastodon does not support ads, other fediverse software like Misskey support it. Misskey.io, the second biggest fedi instance after Mastodon.social, runs ads and subscription simutaniously.

Their ads is merely community ads. Letting their community promote their indie games, manga serialization, artbook release, online event gathering, etc. I think that might be replicatable for Western instance like Mastodon.art or Pixelfed.art.

The notion that Mastodon (and/or) Twitter as public conversation is not universal.

There’s a lot of people, especially in other language that use the social media as microblog or casual coversation. I’m Indonesian, and a lot of people here using Twitter as “anon” account for random rambling (basically microblog) without even interacting with anyone (except IRL friend).

Even Mastodon (and other fedi software) has feature for followers only post or quiet posting (cannot be viewed in live feed, or discovery).

Mastodon users don’t wanna be searchable

Debatable. People don’t want their private account searchable. Creators and news account want their account and their post to be discoverable.

The subscription model rarely works.

It’s not that the subscription model doesn’t work. It’s the investor that demands things to grow even more all the time. There are plenty of service that simply deliver good stuff without investor demand and ended being sustainable for years.

Fedi becomes more accepting of ads

At least, some non-Western fediverse instance runs ads. Notably the second biggest instance in fediverse, Misskey.io. Their ads are community ads, like promoting indie games, vtuber, comic books, IRL gallery event, etc. They also did subscription providing additional cosmetics like Discord. Everyone’s happy.

That “dumb” name is just name in another language 🫠

There’s no universal “phonetic spelling.”

Every language and its user have unique accent and they will intreprete phonitic spelling differently.

Regarding the interface: Krita is heavily designed to match artist workflow around the world. Here’s the complexity:

Different region, ages, and level of professionality have entirely different of common/standard app.

A lot of comic artist or illustrator that delves in anime/manga/ACG style in Asia use Clip Studio Paint as their main software. People from Western gaming industry often used Photoshop or Procreate. Teenager in Asia often use ibisPaint. PaintToolSAI for lightweight and customizable interface. There’s Rebelle for replicating traditional realistic painting.

Krita tried to cater to all of these people, not just “Photoshop users” that mostly just for image editing.

It also the only FOSS YT-based music player that actually support ruby text lyrics for Japanese.