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  • Darorad@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLiberal rule
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    2 years ago

    I don’t think stream clips that are cut to show the opposite of the opinion he was expressing are helpful, he’s done plenty of actual bad shit like sexual harassment and saying slurs that we can criticize him for.

    Taking someone saying, “you can come up with a hypothetical situation where [bad thing] would result in more good than harm, but it’s still bad because of x, y, and z reasons.” And cutting it to them saying “[bad thing] would result in more good than harm” just gives people ground to defend him.







  • Yeah, people got distracted by trying to figure out how it worked instead of just using it like they would any other service. I think people shouldn’t have pushed the federated angle as hard. It’s great, but most people don’t care about it as much as other stuff. It probably would have had a bit better user retention if it was explained with it.

    That being said, mastodon is significantly more complicated than the average service people use. To someone not super tech savvy, it makes sense that it could be enough to push them away. Anyone can get used to it fairly quickly, but any fiction pushes a ton of people away.

    As an example, I work for a company that does web stuff, We changed dropdowns with few options to a multi-select menu component and saw like a 20% increase in the number of people completing the form.






  • Darorad@lemmy.worldOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRulegret
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    2 years ago

    That makes sense, I whish I could do the same. HP was what got me into reading and I met quite a few friends at HP themed summer camps and stuff. I just have a hard time separating art from artist, as I’m enjoying it there’ll be something that reminds me of jkr’s gross views and it pulls me out.