#Hypercapitalism involves the devious practice of passing people 💩 turd sandwiches wrapped in glossy paper, and have the recipient be happy and surprised when opening them.
Because only outward packaging is all that matters, the superficial layer. Hypercapitalism aggressively teaches to look no further. To not see deeper value and meaning. For its practioners, which we all are to an extent, superficiality is thus the "Return on Lack of Investment" we get in return.
Thinking about how this works and in the context of #SX, I introduced #SocialEssence to ponder deeper meaning in the design of social experiences.
It can be a best-practice in a toolbox of #MindfulDesign.
Using an example of a #FediFantasyCard created with the fabulous tool by @nash and @hexephre I described some thoughts on the general idea of "valuing existential essence" in the design of social networking applictions.
Hello fedi. i am trying to solve the "fetch all replies" problem once and for all that makes the fedi feel a lot more desolate and with a lot more reply guys in it than it should be. this is take two, where before i had it triggered by a button, but now i think it should happen on the server-side whenever you expand a post. can anyone help me out figure out how to make this more efficient by only fetching posts that the server doesn't already have? i am not sure what the best strategy would be, and if anyone with experience doing efficient rails and SQL stuff could give me some pointers that would be gr8. the patch is actually extremely simple it just needs a few nice things to make it not DDoS everyone.
Witnessing another occurrrence of the #ReplyGuy anti-pattern this morning inspired me to write some thoughts about this social behavior that is so common on our #Fediverse that is based on #PublicSquare#Microblogging mechanics.
On the #SocialCoding forum I created a category for #SocialExperienceDesign (or #SX) patterns, and the "Reply Guy" #AntiPattern is the first entry in what might be turned into a pattern library collection.
58 rules for beautiful UI design: interesting rules, and I really like that “ELEGANCE” acronym, but, I always try to think critically when anyone brings some “design rules”.
For example:
“good design is as little design as possible”: while simplicity works for some B2C interfaces, oversimplification can lead to a lot of issues, especially in complex enterprise products, for expert users.
Years ago I was discussing a "Human Flourishing Design Guide" and thinking of launching a Flourishment Initiative within which a periodic table of patterns would shape up.
Right now I'm involved with #SocialCoding movement and reviving the field of Social experience design or #SX for the #SocialWeb. That periodic table is still a very nice way to present a pattern library.
I'd like to give a heads-up to #SocialCoding movement where I'm involved and plan to revive the notion of #SX or Social experience design, esp. for the #SocialWeb.
So much chatter on #Fediverse is either deeply technical or app-specific. The field of SX may offer a more holistic and inclusive perspective, focus on methods, guidance and best-practices.
..only to find that that was a bit too much work for me at that time. But fine #SX insights are waiting in that discussion, that can link rot at any moment.
It's just a sketch in a different context (a Fediverse of fine-grained components & services instead of big siloed apps. #AppFreeComputing). It only depicts how a #Microblogging timeline might be richer.
One aspect of #SX may be to show what is possible in federated #UX, in order to inspire and envision a future #Peopleverse.
I would love a #recipe manager with #ActivityPub integration. Like imagine how cool it would be to post your recipes, follow others, comment on each other’s recipes, and even fork/modify recipes and see that relationship from the original recipe. You could have instances focused on cuisine, dietary restriction, cooking method, zero waste, or even your own if you’re a blog… does this exist already? I really want it to exist. #OpenSource
my thermonuclear take is that the issue here isn’t whether it matters that we call AI “AI”
but that Mastodon’s culture is poorly socialized and people here have a hard time doing constructive conversation
This is frequently lamented as “replyguyism,” but I think that’s imprecise. Something happened along the way to mislead people here that derailing the conversation makes friends
Oww 😍 .. such fabulous discussion here. Sad thing is that given fleety nature of Microblogging, next week most has moved into forgetfulness and link rot sets in.
Some people prefer to talk about the "social web" instead of the "fediverse".
If you do, do you just prefer one term over another, or do you think "social web" could emcompass more functionality than what today's fediverse can do?
In addition to thinking of a #SocialExperience instead of an app, there was an existing field of #SocialExperienceDesign or #SX, that never picked up. I intend to use that term again, as it is ideally suited to keep the eye on the ball, as it were: the vision of a #Peopleverse we create together.
SX goes beyond UX in that regard, as a) UX has become too app-focused, and b) we don't objectify 'users' but care about people.