maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

@kwramm unfortunately everyone i know is there and status quo dictates they cannot leave for another platform

@kwramm not even that they all just solve the same problem and don't even offer anything else. if anything slack is a better "product" than discord is because you don't have to pay "premium" to bring in your own emoticons. but then again we already had that on msn messenger decades ago

@indigoparadox see also! https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/113556664415647784

i didn't mean for this to blow up and with how activitypub works you'll never see this post but hey check out the stuff i do https://maple.pet

the above viral post was spurred on by not being allowed to send my friends doodles anymore, see: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/113553227480258257

@mjdxp the problem with trying to do that is that nobody follows you into it and then you're alone in an irc room while everybody else is on discord and for a social creature such as us it's very hard

using computers in 2024 as someone who used to use computers in 2004 is extremely frustrating and depressing

you can already copy images, they show up in the clipboard in gboard, and you can paste them into a text box to send that image on most messaging apps already. this flow already exists. just nobody thought to make something where you can draw on it instead

the only ways i can find now to send a quick drawing to someone else on a phone is by buying into a whole another messaging app and convince others to use it too. i don't want that! literally every other messaging app i already have is already perfectly capable of sending images, it's just that the pipeline of drawing an image and uploading it through to the app is way more convoluted than it needs to be! i should be able to just draw on my screen where the keyboard is and send it as an image!

i miss the times when we did more with a 128mb RAM windows ME machine than we do today with 8gb RAM ARM microcomputers in our pockets

it's fascinating how more boring, less creative and interactive, computing has been for the past 20 years. we used to be able to do this sort of thing (send quick doodles without having to open up 2-3 separate programs) in MSN messenger for crying out loud. now we're pocketing supercomputers that can barely open up and share an image without going through contrived pipelines

next year we'll have been on hrt for a whole decade waow...

@aura tbh we came out as trans on facebook in 2014 (after being out to closer friends since 2011) simply not to deal with family face to face so you're valid

the one thing i miss from wire (messaging app) is being able to doodle things and send as messages

is there anything like that for other apps on android? maybe something that hooks into the file upload (where you can already pick "gallery" or "camera")

now that i have a phone with a stylus more than ever i want to effortlessly send doodles to discord and telegram