@dansup Pixelfed without the pure capitalistic incentive is actually in the best position to invision and implement a foto sharing social media without all those dark patterns used in the industry. It's a wonderful opportunity to explore features and patterns that are great for users but not necessarily for profit. Thank you for building and guiding this project!
@dansup good call!
Though the ethical alternatives are competing for time and attention with the non-ethical ones.
Deceptive patterns then give the non-ethical alternatives the "higher ground", forcing the ethical alternatives to fight an uphill battle.
One way to circumvent that, is to not fight the fight. To position your ethical alt. as something that can be used besides, or on-top-of the non-ethical alt. Instead of being antagonistic to this alt. In language and features.
Just my $0.02.
@dansup with anti-fomo patterns?
@dansup Where are these ideas being discussed? I'd love to see what you're coming up with.
Maybe something more random, or "turn"-based?
@dansup in one sense I can see why mastodon opts for a chronological local and federated timeline. But they did implement a trending hash tags. Maybe the Discover page is based on hash tags the user has explicitly set (or some mechanism for "add this hash tag to my discovery" ie subscribe to #). I mean you could go the implicit route (hashtags based on what the user has liked) but def has its concerns. Or random. However if the underlying issue is How do I find/get found, then diff prob.
Very glad to hear....
@dansup mastodon has a solution whit the rags, where tags trend based on how much of a change there is and not in terms of how many if I underdtand it correctly.
Maybe something similar is possible for pixelfed
@dansup Thank you!