“Additionally designers have purported that they pursue a range of aesthetic choices aimed at attracting or repelling certain types of users. For instance, clients and the official webpage often use pastel colors, on the homepage there is a cartoon about an inter-racial queer love story that explains how scuttlebutt works, and many clients have implemented content warnings. Interviews stated this was all intentional to turn-away hateful users”
I need to barf, this is where THAT artstyle comes from. It’s signalling shit. Tokenization anyone?
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@webb goddamn snake oil people.. "social good data science", how even can you dare to call it science when you have an agenda to follow.
and this fucking trying to fix the symptom "radicalized people" by cancelling etc. only radicalizes more, but wokies are too dense to notice that.
mozilla had more than one chance at really doing something for the world, building a decent browser. they fucked that up knowingly, multiple times.
