ICYM the (UTC−08:00) evening fedi-meta post but are interested, I wrote a whole lot about the ripple effects of interface confusion on Mastodon—and about Black Twitter and the recent troubles on Bluesky, and why people use things that are far from ideal, and also these dudes, whom I love.

https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop

@kissane

Blimey, this is good.

And a perfect example of what @gilest means when he says Hire More Writers

https://gilest.org/hire-more-writers.html

(I'm still trying to figure out what the tildes mean in your writings, tho, Erin)

gilest.org: Hire more writers

@charlesroper @kissane @gilest Thank you! And I’m afraid I use tildes to mean “approximately,” roughly as they work in math, and then I always forget to edit them into something more intelligible.