Post #1577765
2023-07-21 06:54 UTC
@kissane
I'd like to seriously engage with some of these criticisms, but it's really hard for me not to just marvel at how broken the way people think about the internet is.
Let us imagine, for a moment, that someone published a UX critique of Thunderbird. Like, fundimentally we'd know we are talking about an email client.
Even if someone wrote a UX critique of gmail there would still be this cultural understanding that we are talking about one view of this thing called Email. (cont.)
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@irick@this.mouse.rocks 2023-07-21 07:00
@kissane But we are so used to the monoliths of microblogging that we look at mastodon, as an activitypub implementation, and impress on it the same monolithic tendencies. The UX for Tusky is strikingly different from the UX of the official Mastodon client. When reading over your explination of following someone from a remote instance I had to go verify the current flow of the mastodon web UI: because it used to give you a remote follow box that asked for your mastodon handle. (cont.)