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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 02:47:16 JST Nathan Schneider

   @laurenshof I am especially focused on supporting people expert in building communities but not necessarily expert in running webservers:)

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 03:38:35 JST Luis Villa

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     @ntnsndr as @laurenshof says, a lot of low-hanging fruit. I'd suggest one start would be an audit of the Mastodon UX to make it more community-forward.

     Examples from the 🐘 UI:
     * "🌎 Live feeds" is where your local, chosen community is—how is any first-time user supposed to figure that out?
     * I thought I signed up for the "social.coop community"—why is the logo at the top "Mastodon" and "social.coop" greyed out?
     * For me 📣 means protest (or noise). Here: it is the most important community news?

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:17:21 JST Nathan Schneider

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     • Luis Villa

     @luis_in_brief @laurenshof Ooh I love that

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:29:24 JST Luis Villa

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     @ntnsndr @laurenshof thanks! It always staggers me how a platform that is economically and technologically dependent on communities can be so bad at so many basic pro-community UI choices.

     There’s more advanced stuff too, of course: what’s the equivalent of Bluesky’s starter packs so newcomers to a community can get “best of” the community, or input from community-adjacent people on other servers?