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Danilo

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hachyderm.io

My favorite anecdote on the superiority of its product design culture:

For years Masto has avoided quote posts, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth in a conversation that goes in circles, to the detriment of making things people want

Bsky shipped a thing where you can just detach yourself from any quoting post you feel is acting in bad faith, or otherwise brings you attention you don’t want

Sorry, man, they got the juice

Darius Kazemi

@danilo just encountered this thread but: the thing they shipped doesn't make people safer. it gives users a feature they've been asking for that makes them *feel* safer.

Not necessarily a criticism btw. It's interesting to me that when this kinda thing is proposed in the Masto/fedi ecosystem, the response is "yeah but it doesn't WORK it just tricks people into having a sense of safety."

imo it can be ok to design for sense of safety as long as you work to ensure real safety at the same time