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Daniel Nawu@Mastodon I knew. But I didn't know you use #DarkPatterns to trick people into signing up on mastodon.social https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110236405361940166
Aral Balkan (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Dear @[email protected], Please reevaluate your decision to incentivise centralisation on mastodon.social in the official app. This is the sort of design a VC-funded startup would implement, not a non-profit acting in the interests of a healthy commons. I’m sure you don’t want mastodon.social to become mini-Twitter and you don’t want to become mini-Musk. That’s not how we win this. More instances, not larger instances is the key. https://mastodon.ar.al/@[email protected]/110233282943673558 #decentralisation #fediverse #staySmall
FeralRobots@tempus_fuckit
It's definitionally not a #DarkPattern because it's very clearly signaled in the UI.
For it to be a dark pattern, you'd want to be able to propose some benefit that accrues to mastodon.social specifically from people signing up on mastodon.social.