Ali AlkhatibFeb 12, 2023

the framing of mastodon having attrition problems bafflingly misses what's interesting here

mastodon's new user retention rate being as high as it is, despite there being no UX team designing shady psychological tricks into the service/apps to keep you coming back, is a pretty big deal

like, let's be honest, there's very little about mastodon that's making us want to return here compulsively or addictively the way so many for-profit services implicitly aim for

it's pretty much just the people

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i think, if anything at all, we should be looking at this as the marginal difference between toxic user experience design and healthier approaches and mindsets about use. and how small that gap is.

it's like taking massive amounts of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs for years, and then realizing it only gave you a tiny bump in performance. like... sure, it effected a statistically significant difference, but could we POSSIBLY justify the amount money we spent on drugs?

Feb 12, 2023 at 4:58pmWeb