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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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raganwald, to random
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A rallying cry for the "Make Something Wonderful" crowd.

🪖 @aral

https://social.bau-ha.us/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/112427628706932284

aral,
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@raganwald 💕

aral,
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@raganwald Haha :)

aral, to SmallWeb
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Sitting outside on a rare sunny day at a lovely pub in Bray, refactoring Kitten* to pull out the settings page sections into their own pages (and use Kitten’s new Streaming HTML workflow**) and enjoying a yummy pint of Tundra IPA.

No complaints :)

#Kitten #SmallWeb #Bray #Ireland

aral,
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@juliancday Ah, nice. Alas, if I have another pint I’ll be a danger to myself and others on my OneWheel so perhaps another time :)

aral,
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@fkamiah17 Sadly, I don’t tan. I go lobster red then back to white again. Worst Turkish genes ever :)

aral, (edited ) to design
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If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.

Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.

#design #technology #ethics #peopleNotUsers

aral,
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@fmhueffer * of Big Tech.

We can have different tech if we have different ideologies underpinning it. e.g., Small Tech:

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

aral,
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@blogdiva Thanks :)

And we can (and must) go beyond “static”. The Small Web vision is that people can have a dynamic site that can be (at least one of) their online identities. Protected by public-key encryption so that we can interact with each other privately (end-to-end encrypted) without Big Tech intermediaries and also be public as we please.

aral, to random
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Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.

Compare:

“There are 42 users on this instance.”

vs

“There are 42 people on this instance.”

Which acknowledges our humanity more?

Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).

#peopleNotUsers

aral,
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@jasonemiller If only there was a word we could use to denote different accounts that a single person might have on a system. I don’t know, maybe something like “account?”

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