André StaltzMost changes in life or in society cause discomfort, the need to adapt your mind with new ways and ideas. Yet we (or... companies operating in the capitalist market) try to achieve these changes by sales that promote the idea that the service will take the burden on your behalf.
m455That "non-technical user" who won't understand your new decentralized app even if you have hand-holding UI/UX is probably more spoiled by services that do everything for them, then they are actually "incapable" of learning.
(I say this while simultaneously holding the belief that too many p2p apps, including mine, are still too alienating to non-technical crowds. I'm striving to do better UX.
BUT, any deep change will inevitably cause the user to learn new things, and that cannot and should not be avoided)
"Make this decentralized app work just like centralized apps, from the perspective of non-technical users" is thus essentially to not teach anything new to those users, and fundamentally is a paradox that will keep the user on those centralized apps.
People MUST learn.
JP@staltz I absolutely agree, tho I think there’s a balancing force here too: setting expectations. Even with my extreme newness in the Manyverse, I can see that folks joining expecting “twitter” will be more confused than those expecting “facebook” (though there’s obviously considerable differences there too!)
The best expectations are set against things that *aren’t* competitors, but that’s often where it’s easiest to explain functionality. It’s so fascinating, you must be loving the challenge!
Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻@staltz its funny blusky is being regarded as the successor when it too will apparently be decentralized with all that entails
funny thing is people understood it well enough in the IM days that eventually gave birth to twitter because there were tons of different networks that could all be used at once
FoolishOwl@staltz I've seen the idea that people must learn criticized as gatekeeping. But the refusal to learn is trained. And I think people need to understand that. There are specific triggers that will set people off that something is "too hard", even when those steps are simple and clearly documented.
lunchy@staltz and it doesn't even *have* to be harder, people are used to email addresses and phone numbers
it's just different than what centralization affords