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One of big things I’ve come to believe in my couple of decades working on internet stuff is that great product design is always holistic: Always working in relation to a whole system of interconnected parts, never concerned only with atomic decisions. And this perspective just straight-up cannot emerge from a piecemeal, GitHub-issues approach to fixing problems. This is the main reason it’s vanishingly rare to see good product design in open source.

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One of big things I’ve come to believe in my couple of decades working on internet stuff is that great product design is always holistic: Always working in relation to a whole system of interconnected parts, never concerned only with atomic decisions. And this perspective just straight-up cannot emerge from a piecemeal, GitHub-issues approach to fixing problems. This is the main reason it’s vanishingly rare to see good product design in open source.
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Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-May-2023 17:26:33 UTC Chris Trottier

I have the opposite opinion of @kissane.
I believe Mastodon has been product designed to death. I’m not alone. There’s reason Eugen Rochko is often called “website boy”.
His product designs often result in the rest of the Fediverse being invisible to Mastodon. For example, people don’t known when someone from Friendica sends them a post because Mastodon presents their posts as “Mastodon”.
This is not an oversight. It’s a design decision.

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