Post #2315612

2026-04-19 04:15 UTC

@bengo@mastodon.social … that maybe showing “like” counts and other “engagement” stats isn’t a good thing. It’s counterintuitive for software designers trained on surfacing as much data as possible, but it’s probably true.

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@smallcircles@social.coop 2026-04-19 06:28

@benpate@mastodon.social @bengo@mastodon.social Interesting paper, thanks. I just made an analogy to how road networks evolve over time, and what that means for the #social environment. This against the backdrop of my long blog article about #ActivityPub fediverse #evolution. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116429792361242801 Social experience design examines the #SocioCultural ecosystem that emerges by the #technology landscape and is determined by the shape of our #tech that it must grown on. Think like organic moss, that is able to take a foothold in the nooks and crannies of slick aluminium roofs. #SocialWeb is a forest. An observation is that we generally severely underestimate the impact of "adding an extra online channel, so now we can be social remotely". This way of perceiving social totally misses how everything is different online, and at the same time that many things should / can be very similar to how we do offline #SocialNetworking for ages. Increasing social bandwidth on the wire. https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#personal-social-networking #SX #SocialCoding

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