Nora ReedAug 6, 2023
anything to avoid actually calling in your boys to tell them to shut the fuck up sometimes lol https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110839737998715967
Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])

Hi, fediverse Web and mobile client developer. What if you added a speed bump in the reply flow to slow down users for just a moment? "Do you really want to reply to X? Will they appreciate your reply?" Maybe just the first time they reply to someone; maybe easily turned off in settings. If it makes people think for just a moment, it might help with making the fediverse a more welcoming place for women.

CoSocial
Show threadNora ReedAug 6, 2023
the mansplaining problem is a cultural one with mastodon because it's full of cis men who have put more thought into their linux flavor of choice than they ever have about whether their behavior is useful or wanted. it cannot be solved with the twitter popup that says "are you sure you want to post this?" when you tell someone to eat shit
Show threadNora ReedAug 6, 2023
i don't get mansplained to nearly as much on bluesky, and that's not because bluesky stumbled on some kind of magical feminist UI design, it's because mastodon is dominated by FOSS nerds, who have a terrible culture
Show threadCharlie StrossAug 6, 2023
@NoraReed FOSS as a movement owes a lot to Richard M. Stallman and Eric S. Raymond—in all the worst ways imaginable.
Show threadJoshua A.C. NewmanAug 6, 2023
@cstross @NoraReed I choked down a couple chapters of The Cathedral & The Bazaar before concluding that any idea Eric Raymond had was much less important to Eric Raymond than Eric Raymond is to Eric Raymond.
Show threadWeekend Editor

@JoshuaACNewman @cstross @NoraReed

Back in the day of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, I was happily writing software at a lisp machine. I was grateful to have found a culture where "Do the Right Thing" was not a joke, but the actual practice. (Mostly.)

We looked at The Cathedral and the Bazaar with some horror, as though it were some kind of barbarian manifesto. As though it urged people not to bother handling all the cases, just crash instead. As though speed of delivery were more important than correctness.

But then, we were the Cathedral Crowd, so we would have said that, wouldn't we?

Aug 6, 2023 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadFadeAug 6, 2023
@weekend_editor @JoshuaACNewman @cstross @NoraReed Dear god, did "move fast and break things" come from that direction? That... would explain a lot.