@smallcircles I appreciate the deeper thinking and questions about affordances and experience design, I think this may resonate with you!
Thank you, I really like the article. It describes a whole bunch of activities and consideration where Social experience design evolves methodical solution development practices.
A social experience can be seen as "how people experience a solution" and this includes how that solution interacts with other solutions these people were already exposed to i.e. it accounts for the externalities of technology introduction. Social experiences work at different scales which #SX design perspectives account for:
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#pyramid-of-perspective
An issue on the app-centric fedi is that app devs have a technical view of the fediverse, while 'fedizens' have a social one, leading to expectation mismatches. Apps are typically developed for 2 stakeholders: "Users" and the devs themselves (the de-facto owners of 'app-space').
While feature driven app-focused design may improve social experience for app users, it pays insufficient attention to the overall experience of the fediverse.
When looking through the lens of Social experience design we can say that the fediverse-we-have and the #ActivityPub social network promise in the W3C specs, have become diverged to the extent they are hard forks.
A #SX solution is said to exist as soon as you can write it down on a sticky note in the form of a vision, need, objective, or solution.
The AS/AP fediverse sticky note reads: "The future of social networking is decentralized".
The fediverse-we-have note reads: "Decentralized microblogging"
Besides that both sticky notes express a tech focus, exist in the technosphere not sociosphere, they express no vision.. A place where we want to be, and why. There is complete misconception both on technical, let alone social direction, and that leads to endless confusion and again those mismatched expectations.
App devs now try to hammer their apps onto "Decentralized microblogging" in hopes "future of social networking" somehow emerges. That is unlikely.
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