# Principles for Building Open Alternatives to Dominant Big-Tech Platforms

DevFeed: [Principles for Building Open Alternatives to Dominant Big-Tech Platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-we-in-the-open-world-are-messing-up-in-trying-to-compete-with-big-tech-36598.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/>)

Published: 2025-05-18T11:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that open-tech projects seeking to reduce dependence on dominant proprietary platforms must prioritize usability, visual quality, and user experience. It presents principles intended to help open alternatives compete more effectively with big-tech platforms.

## Source excerpt

Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end it altogether. This article is part of a series of posts on (European) cloud challenges. Everyone in the open tech scene is full of good intentions and we all want to improve things, but mostly we are not succeeding. By our nature, we would like to build fun, open, federated, and standards-based things.