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So why not use reuse pre-existing terminology? Server, is known to everyone who ever played a game. Why throw away all the user work too learn strange cs-magic

So why not use reuse pre-existing terminology? Server, is known to everyone who ever played a game. Why throw away all the user work too learn strange cs-magic words? At this point its almost pathologic with open source. Incapable to accept a user power assymetry. Everyone has to become an expert. Utopian visions, while leaving the users hanging out to dry in dystopian user experiences. Year of the linux desktop 2012. Year of the open source social network 2022. Year of acceptance that grandma does not want to be a developer 2038. Sorry for being bitter about this, but those who allow this to go on, are the very same are feeding the software megacorpos of this earth.

tidenly 4y ago
This is a similar vibe I was getting too honestly. I checked out the git repo thinking about doing some contributions, but the more I use mastodon the less it feels like the user is being cared about at all. There's a load of cult of technology thinking going on, and choices to remove stuff users expect ('favourite' counts on the timeline) because of idealism ("it will give favouritism to posts with high counts).
- freewizard 4y ago
  The fav count is not accurate except on the original server anyway, due to how the protocol is designed.