Over the past 24 hrs while Mastodon was discoursing about whether or not starter packs are OK, and if slow progress is more due to lack of funding or different priorities, and if people that choose other social networks are just evil, lazy, shiftless people who love to lick VCs boots or are people that just want a better UX...
BlueSky added another 1 million users.
Madeleine Morris
in reply to mekka okereke :verified: • • •"people that choose other social networks are just evil, lazy, shiftless people who love to lick VCs boots"
This kind of absolutism really makes me despair. People will go where they feel comfortable. That is just a fundamental reality. And demeaning them for doing so is tragically self-defeating for Mastodon.
Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping
in reply to Madeleine Morris • • •mekka okereke :verified:
in reply to Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping • • •I hate the weak excuse making for bad UX.
"It's VC money!" No it's not. There were proposals for starter packs by Black Mastodon users years ago. Of course they were ignored.
And as I've pointed out, Inkscape is an open source project with good UX. You don't need money. You just need to care.
Dudes who sit around and obsess about writing great code, don't understand that designing great UX is the same thing. It just requires focus and caring.
mekka okereke :verified:
in reply to mekka okereke :verified: • • •I also hate the silliness of claiming that providing lifeboats for people that want to leave Twitter is some type of moral failure. The silliest I've heard is "Fast and easy is how you get Trump!"
No.
Stop being silly. Just fix the onboarding. There's nothing noble or pure about having poor UX and no safety features, so that Black women can't find their friends and then get yelled at by nazis.
It's not pure. It's just a bad product. Fix it.
Jürgen Hubert
in reply to mekka okereke :verified: • • •While #Mastodon is the giant of the #Fediverse , I am curious if any of the other projects have made better strides with onboarding, moderation, UX and so forth.
How is #Friendica on these issues? Or #Misskey ? Ideally we should have a number of _different_ #ActivityPub -based systems which all compete to make their user experiences better. I mean, isn't tying ourselves too closely to any single platform how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place?