Joining #mastodon has reminded me how much #UX is a form of community politics. Discussions over usability, searchability, federability (sounds awkward but you know what I mean) -- these reflect debates we are having right now in many aspiring democracies. Where do we want people to live? What will we build to make it easy to get around? What kinds of social services should be available? How do we manage borders? UX choices are political choices, and it's important to treat them as such.
@baekdal it’s scenes like this that make poirot so fun for me https://youtu.be/wHPj34VWE8o
@baekdal they’re both solid faves of mine. I’ve rewatched poiroit countless times tho.
@atomicpoet also behind Google plus. The idea behind it wasn’t up to the sender to remove you from a list and you could organise streams by context/category.
@jon One of the big problems with "the algorithm" for me and many others is that we simply STOPPED seeing content from people we want to see, and started seeing MORE content from people being reactionary, fandom drama, call-outs, and the like.
The algorithm made the experience a lot worse for me and others, and turned our timelines into a shit show.
I'm okay with some subtle algorithmic sorting, but rather then bringing conflict forward, to bring accounts forward we frequently interact with.
I swear to god, journalists have become Big Social's PR department even as Big Social puts them out of business.
@atomicpoet when people say “drives clicks”, I’m guessing that’s only true if you count maximising a tweet or seeing a full sized image. But actually clicking out of twitter .. lol.
I've said this previously. With the old startup model, you might be able to capture significant marketshare for 20 years. You might even be one of the most valuable companies on the planet during that time. Hence, Meta.
But if you want something people will use indefinitely, you need to build a protocol.
Guess what? Corporations don't want to build protocols. Hence, a startup-driven version of the Fediverse will probably fail.
@atomicpoet if he means growth through investor money and then a nice stock crash when it’s not profitable, yeah. That’s what happens to a lot of VC backed software.
I’ll pass on that future.
Google developed a new text editor that allows you to steer a story by asking questions ("tell me more about the fairy's day job") and got 13 well-known writers (Robin Sloane, Allison Parish, etc) to write a book of short stories with it. Stories and model demo: https://wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com/
If you're interested in running your own single-user instance, follow @darnell
Not only does he run one, he runs multiple—and has learned lots of lessons in the process!
@atomicpoet what I’m seeing is that crypto is a ✨ belief ✨ for these guys.
Great news, @internetarchive is now the official Internet Archive Mastodon account. Accept no substitutes! We also have @brewsterkahle , the ever-fascinating founder of the place, and more coming soon. Hop on!
I actually really like tumblr and don’t want it to die. It feels more like mastodon than other networks. But it seems having once central hub isn’t working financially.
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