Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org

Crazy brain-fart idea: if the app has a gui, once every couple of weeks, it should splash screen a picture, a paragraph, and a link, all at one of the actual makers who actually made the app.

Just a splash screen. Just every couple of weeks. And not a model. An actual maker. And not blurbissimo, whatever paragraph they write. And not a link to the company site, a link to their personal site.

Too many users don't understnad the most basic fact of software development: humans do it.

Hear me out: Disney on Thin Ice

@timbray @andy @rachelwilliams @Sanlear @kailagenevieve @kathygriffin @Jslez @jeffjarvis @Michele This feels likely an argument where people are shouting across each other. There's a reasonable point of intersection between (a) algorithms of major social networks have not worked in user's best interests and (b) a heuristic could be built (maybe with control by individual users) that makes their feeds more personally useful - even if only surfacing content from those they follow. Both can be true

Spoke with an engineer over the holidays who maintained that Meta is blameless for abuses on their platform. He asked me, mockingly, "should they stop scaling just because they can't moderate everything?"

The answer is YES. Scale is not just a technical issue. If you cannot control your system, stop growing it.

(btw this is also a good example of how #UX comes from more than just the buttons on the screen)

#ProductManagement

@Michele @kathygriffin @jeffjarvis

I'd like mastodon users to be given more individual algorithmic powers.

There are already a few: following certain tags, blocking boosts from specific people u follow, filtering certain words. Those are all algorithms.

I'd like to see more, like: only show posts from X follower after Y boosts or stars. (to soften those over-posters). etc.

In sum: I'd like more powers to craft my personal algorithm, to reflect, as @timbray says, my personal interests

Ayeeee I'm starting to see #BlackTwitter come through with #BlackMastodon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Keep coming through, because we ain't bout to have this joint looking like 90s-2000s internet.

It's time to see just how accepting and inclusive this place is.

Georgians please dump Herschel "wayward" Walker and reelect Senator Warnock. We need to bring home the Senate! Please and thank you!!

#georgia #elections #demsdeliverdemocracy #senatedemocrats

Want to help redesign one of the most popular and widely-used tools for researchers?

Zotero is hiring a designer: https://www.zotero.org/jobs/ui_designer

Would do it if I could. Ideal for someone else who has great UX / product design chops.