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Erin Kissane May 1, 2023

I really only ever spend time and energy criticizing things if I think my notes might help make them better.

That is 100% the vibe I tried to bring to the Mastodon criticisms here—I really like this place, but I *really* want it to work better for more people who aren't like me.

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

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Jaap-Henk Hoepman (@xot)May 1, 2023

@kissane Thanks for writing this - expressing so clearly what has been in the back of my mind ever since I joined Mastodon (and for the most part enjoying it).

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Jaap-Henk Hoepman (@xot)

@kissane Fav quote: “One of big things I’ve come to believe in my couple of decades working on internet stuff is that great product design is always holistic: Always working in relation to a whole system of interconnected parts, never concerned only with atomic decisions. And this perspective just straight-up cannot emerge from a piecemeal, GitHub-issues approach to fixing problems. This is the main reason it’s vanishingly rare to see good product design in open source."