I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, most of y’all don’t know what it’s like to be a fediverse developer of a popular project and have to deal with all the negative feedback and personal attacks
Let’s be nicer to the devs of the fediverse who have been doing this mostly unpaid for the greater good, all I ask is for basic respect!
Anfora, Prismo, Firefish and dozens of other projects have been abandoned by their devs, and I’d bet the fediverse mentality towards devs is part of the reason
One good way to support the Fediverse's volunteer devs: ask them to work with volunteer design and user-research practitioners who help them to develop and test usable designs – before any substantial code is written.
Testing mockups and prototypes with the community would reduce unhappiness all around.
Apple #MacOS with multiple #users. My 2Tb disk was getting #full for unknown reason. #Finder does not show file sizes.
Tried using #MacPaw#cleanmymac to clean disk. No change.
Massive 'system data' shown in storage menu 'about my mac'.
Only #daisyDisk installed as free standing app NOT from (Apple Store!) using scan as administrator was able to find the 1) users with large video files 2) delete 'purgable space' presumably containing #timemachine junk.
Can anyone justify Apple #macOS design?
"Dark mode" which is so popular on #Mastodon, is extremely difficult -- even painful -- for many people with astigmatism and other common vision issues. Just sayin'.
Far too many #websites and #applications are designed and implemented by 20- or 30-somethings with no #vision issues, or any sort of #accessibility issue. Elements you need to click with nearly pixel-precision when you have fine motor control problems or alternative input devices, #dark modes with spider-thin light grey text on a black background, designers picking #fonts that render 3mm high on a screen, on and on.
Would it kill them to #test designs with actual #users?
For anyone who think that people can switch #instance if they don't agree with their moderation policies, no, the average person doesn't think further than picking a random #instance with large enough userbase and go, the changing instance feature is too confusing to them (also the whole #federation or instance things).
Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style...
Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.
Compare:
“There are 42 users on this instance.”
vs
“There are 42 people on this instance.”
Which acknowledges our humanity more?
Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).
@aral Setting the 'bot' problem aside, there is another problem with your plea. The word 'people' has a special meaning, implying distinct units. The word 'users' includes the possibility that one person could have multiple accounts. For this reason, it will always be the case that #users>=#people.
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Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt (decrypt.co)
Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style...