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.

Vintage Story.

It’s indie Minecraft-alike that expand survival element 100 times. With various unique lore and semi-realism gameplay.

Graphite.rs is node-based.

It’s entirely different workflow.

There’s new contender in FOSS music player scene: Fooyin

Fooyin is Foobar2000-like music player that currently hevily in development, it probably less than one year, but it has so many advance feature that even establish music player doesn’t have.

They don’t need to get big like Meta or any Western social media.

They simply need to serve their targeted demography well to be able to survive. A lot of East Asian platform doing basically that, still alive even after a 15+ years.

Local social media is different from bigger social media platform.

Those big social media generally are American/Western-centric. Sure, you can find local community on them, but their moderation system are often still Western-centric.

You’ll surprised on how often other language being moderated (deleted/removed) because it mistaken as hate speech. For example, word that in certain language has neutral meaning, but mistaken as offensive in English.

Also, local social media often designed to local culture. Xiaohongshu and Plurk are the primary example. Entirely unique UI and user experience.

Even fediverse also this cultural-focused software. Take a look on Misskey (a Japanese-made fediverse software), it primarily designed for Japanese internet culture, which entirely different from Mastodon or Pleroma.

ActivityPub is not designed for real time chat and communication, I believe.

There’s Matrix and XMPP protocol, but upcoming MLS protocol (which backed Mozilla, The Matrix.org Foundation, even Meta) looks more complete, feature-wise.

Instead of yet another globally massive social media, I want to see regional social media that’s not massive globally, but popular in their country of origin. Or niche social media.

List so far:

• Post.news
• Koo (India)
• Cohost
• Hive
• Plurk (still relatively popular in Taiwan)
• Lofter (Chinese Tumblr)
• Xiaohongshu (Chinese version of Instagram and Pinterest on one app, probably Pixelfed can clone their unique UI)
• Lemon8
• Weibo

Art general:

• Cara
• Artstation
• Xfolio
• Pixiv
• Deviantart

Design:

• Dribbbble
• Behance

Hobby specific:

• Anilist
• Kitsu
• Annict (Japanese anime-tracker and social)
• ComicSpace (Japanese manga tracker)
• MyAnimeList
• MyFigureCollection
• MyDramaList

LibRate is WIP fediverse alternative for that.

It plans to supports film, books, games, and more. Basically one stop for every tracker.

I recall the dev claims that the monster are inspired by Dragon Quest.

…and Pokemon itself has a lot of monster that basically inspired by Dragon Quest as well.

Also, huge chunks of design are basically based of common monster design in Japan or Chinese mythology. Unfortunately, Western fans don’t know the reference, and claims it was ripped-off from Pokemon.

Not really, some of them are actually well-crafted and has fun gameplay.

This reminds me of so many Japanese dev only release their games on Switch because they don’t want people to mod them.

…especially for family-friendly games or something based off popular IP (e.g. SPYxFAMILY).

westerners trying to self-criticize their use of chauvinistic language

That’s the problem.

Westerner often force this rules towards everyone.

Like that one time someone got banned for using “nasi goreng” as their username with reasoning “it has similarity with Nazism” despite it’s on international group.

Or when Asian English group that usually co-exist within recognition of different culture suddenly has Westerner that policing everything about language. “Oh this is so offensive towards Asian”, while no one in group never know or even used the word in negative connotation.

While in reality because SEAsian are multi-language speaker, we just self moderate in case of potential language conflict, like budak in Malay is children, but in Indonesian means slave.

Asian here and rice eater here.

Language doesn’t work in absolute way, it could change its meaning all the time.

It’s better to regain is neutral meaning instead of letting the racist weaponize neutral word.

Also, this mindset is also Western centric, go to Asia and people in Linux and car community simply use the word without any negative connotation.

Edit: By doing this, you’re no different from imperial government who tries to make one standard of morality, which in fact further hurts Asian living in Asia. And as Indonesian, I’m hurt with your statement. Let me regain the neutral meaning. Don’t speak for us.

So, exactly how it works in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesian.

They speak native local language from their city, other two from other islands, English for international language, sometimes Chinese, Malay, Arabic, Korean, or Japanese. Not to forget the national language, Indonesian.