fedi and platforms are different environments, but one is made to look like the other and draw on familiarity with what came before it.
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fedi and platforms are different environments, but one is made to look like the other and draw on familiarity with what came before it. at some point fedi has the qualities of imitation meat -- perhaps ethically superior to real meat, but people like real meat, whereas imitation meat just ends up being a weird uncanny valley when you consume it, and the experience isn't very good; you get the sense that going vegetarian would be less frustrating if you just made a proper salad bowl or something.
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fedi and platforms are different environments, but one is made to look like the other and draw on familiarity with what came before it. at some point fedi has the qualities of imitation meat -- perhaps ethically superior to real meat, but people like real meat, whereas imitation meat just ends up being a weird uncanny valley when you consume it, and the experience isn't very good; you get the sense that going vegetarian would be less frustrating if you just made a proper salad bowl or something.
really, a lot of the ux "sins" of fedi are that it is trying to copy things that only work on centralized platforms, so the decentralization makes them not work. people do different things, information may be unavailable due to a lack of universal knowledge. consistency is no longer guaranteed. thus, we need alternative solutions to the same fundamental problems, solutions that can handle this inconsistency, not solutions that pretend to be consistent.
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really, a lot of the ux "sins" of fedi are that it is trying to copy things that only work on centralized platforms, so the decentralization makes them not work. people do different things, information may be unavailable due to a lack of universal knowledge. consistency is no longer guaranteed. thus, we need alternative solutions to the same fundamental problems, solutions that can handle this inconsistency, not solutions that pretend to be consistent.
@trwnh not the point but that's so true about the salad bowls
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really, a lot of the ux "sins" of fedi are that it is trying to copy things that only work on centralized platforms, so the decentralization makes them not work. people do different things, information may be unavailable due to a lack of universal knowledge. consistency is no longer guaranteed. thus, we need alternative solutions to the same fundamental problems, solutions that can handle this inconsistency, not solutions that pretend to be consistent.
(this is my response to an article floating around about the new user experience on fedi; i don't really want to bother the author directly, but while reading it, i did register a vague disagreement with the implicit assumptions of the article, as well as some of its suggestions)
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@trwnh not the point but that's so true about the salad bowls
@mwyalchen it actually was kind of the point too, don't worry!
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(this is my response to an article floating around about the new user experience on fedi; i don't really want to bother the author directly, but while reading it, i did register a vague disagreement with the implicit assumptions of the article, as well as some of its suggestions)
oh also re: onboarding, the analogous thing would be asking people where on planet earth they would like to live. first you have to pick a country (server software) then a city/town (specific instance). the answer isn't "funnel everyone into one place". that's like saying everyone should just live in one city, or everyone should start in the same city. you're trying to get people to move from sf to berlin, but what if they don't like berlin? what if they don't like germany either?
