Also, in case it's not clear, I really want this place to work or I'd be quietly writing novels and reading archaeology journals and taking my dumb little walks.

You got me, Mastodon, I'm writing about software again and I'm inclined to keep going.

@kissane
I'd like to seriously engage with some of these criticisms, but it's really hard for me not to just marvel at how broken the way people think about the internet is.

Let us imagine, for a moment, that someone published a UX critique of Thunderbird. Like, fundimentally we'd know we are talking about an email client.

Even if someone wrote a UX critique of gmail there would still be this cultural understanding that we are talking about one view of this thing called Email. (cont.)

@kissane
But we are so used to the monoliths of microblogging that we look at mastodon, as an activitypub implementation, and impress on it the same monolithic tendencies.

The UX for Tusky is strikingly different from the UX of the official Mastodon client. When reading over your explination of following someone from a remote instance I had to go verify the current flow of the mastodon web UI: because it used to give you a remote follow box that asked for your mastodon handle. (cont.)

@kissane
But every time I see this conversation, it is one that is framed at a central authority. We're not going to make progress through appealing to hegemony. The analysis can give us insight but the fediverse isn't mastodon.

We don't have to ask permission. We can just fork it. We can build the systems we want to see. We can have a conversation through Praxis and through such demonstrably improve the quality of life of our communities.