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I would not agree with the general statement about FOSS. Some commercial products absolutely do edge out the free ones. And I am not sure it is only the limited funding, seeing the usability issues with Linux. I think Linus Tech Tips video series was a nice insight.
But for social platforms I do not even see a different way. FOSS is a must, especially with the inherent bias of algorithms. Commercial third party clients still could be beneficial.
This sort of thing is quite different technically.
With Inkscape, blender and gimp - the main draw is an extremely complicated UI that produces image files. A social network is just sending text around back and forth.
The beauty here is the activitypub spec. The way it works is like:
ActivityPub Protocol <- Lemmy Backend <- Lemmy Client
Building a replacement backend or client is comparatively trivial. Making a good one would be hard, of course, but a single developer could whip up something that's technically a lemmy client, or technically a activitypub backend over a weekend.
That decoupled layering, the idea that each bit just does one comparatively simple thing, is intentional.
If lemmy/kbin catch on (which it looks like they are), it will be not long at all before there are a a plethora of tools and clients cross platform.