Brutkey

Eugen Rochko
@Gargron@mastodon.social

@mcc@mastodon.social Perhaps. Bluesky also didn't bother with decentralization when it launched, skipping past the hard problems of onboarding and discovery that are unique to decentralized systems. Sure, no normal person cares about "decentralization"... until another billionaire buys your favourite platform and turns it into a right-wing propaganda machine.

Glyph
@glyph@mastodon.social

@Gargron@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social All the more reason to treat the user experience problems with Mastodon seriously, so that the people who are at the mercy of network effects and get sucked into new sites like Bluesky are relatively less harmed by them.

I agree with your point here but when it is coming from you, personally, it smacks of defensiveness. I understand the impulse to be defensive here but the better thing is to double-down on making the UX better, particularly in terms of making public statements.

rakoo
@rakoo@blah.rako.space

@glyph@mastodon.social
There were experiments to provide a network-wide search. To create a thing so that you could look for people you know, or what was happening in the wide, across instances. But a part of the community disagreed with the very idea so no one wants to take the risk to run it again. Mastodon has problems, but to think that only the software or the project is blocking adoption is just deflecting blame.

@Gargron@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social

Eugen Rochko
@Gargron@mastodon.social

@glyph@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social We've had a professional designer on the team on a freelance basis since 2021, recently we hired a full-time Product Designer to replace him. I'm not sure where the idea that we don't treat user experience seriously comes from, so it's difficult for me to address it.