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   Stefan (kranzkrone@quasselkopf.de)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 23:17:15 JST Stefan

   • Aral Balkan

   So fittingly described by @aral what's wrong with the Term of User:

   The Big Web has “users” – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.

   Source: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

   #SmallWeb #Users #WrongTerm

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 23:17:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     @kranzkrone 💕

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:40:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @kranzkrone *sigh*

     It’s a critique, not a history PhD :)

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:40:52 JST Rich Felker

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     • Aral Balkan

     @kranzkrone @aral I find this at least ahistorical. The term "user" predates big web/SV, and comes from a standpoint of designing things to be useful to/used by someone to meet their needs.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:41:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • bhawthorne

     @bhawthorne @kranzkrone Me too.

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     bhawthorne (bhawthorne@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 02:41:27 JST bhawthorne

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     • Aral Balkan

     @kranzkrone @aral I prefer the term “people.”