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I'm certainly not making fun! I earnestly mean that. I write consumer apps for a living, which are used by millions of people. GenPop UX is my bread and butter.

I'm certainly not making fun! I earnestly mean that. I write consumer apps for a living, which are used by millions of people. GenPop UX is my bread and butter. I don't have the luxury of thinking about how devs will use a product; I have to worry about how your grandmother is going to use it. Case in point: grandmas use facebook, but they don't use hackernews. Grandmas will use a site that works like facebook, but will not create blogs or do even one extra step other than "sign up" and "write text into a box"/"upload images from their camera". Social media isn't all journalists and the terminally online. I'm picking on "grandmas", but those dudes that sit in their truck and record political rants on tiktok apply as well. These people need an immediate outlet, and these are the biggest percentage of users (by consumption, rather than content production). MOST people just want to comment. The internet loves a peanut gallery, and god do people love to participate. So comments and realtime interactivity have to be a priority. Moving on; I'm glad to hear that ads are available via RSS! I genuinely didn't know (though, I suspected they could be snuck in there, if it wasn't 'technically' a feature). I wonder, though, if they're modern enough to be useful? I doubt RSS can do pre-roll video content, or interstitial video ad insertion? If so, that's pretty great! But I think you'd need stuff like that for people who - say - posted webcomics and wanted to monetize that with video ads before and after their "articles". Or news outlets that wanted to share their latest "headline" clip. As far as the fediverse, I like a lot of what it has done, but my concerns remain there, too. It's close to what we need, as far as decentralization goes, but it isn't seamless, yet, and it's simply NOT being picked up by the general public. My guess on that is because of the extra steps involved (again, grandmas and mirrored-sunglasses-bros). But I don't claim to be an expert there.

Brajeshwar 4y ago
Totally with you and I empathize about not having the luxury of how devs will use a product. I used to design apps/programs for Pocket PC[1] Devices for Physicians in the USA, so they can be paid better and faster with lesser errors in the early part of 2000s. I heard the system being still used 10-15 years later. So, imagine building products for tiny screens with very limited power with lots of regulations/restrictions for grumpy physicians who wants to get paid on time. :-) And yes, I also build Apps/Programs for Teachers so they can generate unlimited fun lessons for kids in 3-6 grades. Imagine making it easy and fun for the teachers to in turn use the tools to generate fun lessons for kids. I heard that thing won BAFTA and stuffs but I never looked back. :-) It was fun. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC

Brajeshwar 4y ago

Totally with you and I empathize about not having the luxury of how devs will use a product. I used to design apps/programs for Pocket PC[1] Devices for Physicians in the USA, so they can be paid better and faster with lesser errors in the early part of 2000s. I heard the system being still used 10-15 years later. So, imagine building products for tiny screens with very limited power with lots of regulations/restrictions for grumpy physicians who wants to get paid on time. :-) And yes, I also build Apps/Programs for Teachers so they can generate unlimited fun lessons for kids in 3-6 grades. Imagine making it easy and fun for the teachers to in turn use the tools to generate fun lessons for kids. I heard that thing won BAFTA and stuffs but I never looked back. :-) It was fun. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC