Notices by Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social), page 4

@liztai@hachyderm.io Oh my God. I wish I was in Malaysia again.

One thing I do believe is that it's better to ask for a woman's perspective on her lived experience than to not ask.

Many terrible things have happened because a woman's perspective has not been considered.

Mind you, no one's entitled to hear a woman's perspective. But making an assumption on a lived experience is also a form of entitlement.

@manlycoffee@techhub.social I'm just considering a flaw in the question.

I realize this poll might be self-defeating because the women who don't like sharing their perspectives might prefer to not vote.

Still interesting, though.

@niksu@mastodontti.fi @sphakos@toot.cat I disagree. On Twitter (back when I used it) I generally found that women love giving feedback on things -- particularly on whether or not something appeals to them.

In fact, in any product dev, it's silly not to ask for a woman's perspective.

The more diverse perspectives, the better.

@miriam2k22 Thanks. Nobody has ever told me that. Thanks for the good vibes.

@sphakos@toot.cat Just tried that. Wildly, the response was different. It didn't say that women might like it too. Nor did it give me the big long-winded lecture.

@jessel@universeodon.com Search.

@rushraptor@babka.social I get it, but the tool can be damn annoying at times.

Chat-GPT is like the world’s most annoying first year sociology student. It always wants to show off what it knows about society, though it has no life experience in the real world.

Except, even worse, it’s never existed in society and doesn’t know what it’s like.

I mean, it’s not as though there isn’t whole publishing houses devoted to catering to women’s tastes in literature.

What is Harlequin, for god’s sakes?

Yes, I know Harlequin doesn’t appeal to all women. That’s obvious. We all know that.

But it’s their audience is almost entirely women.

I wrote a story and asked Chat-GPT if it would appeal to women. And what does it do?

Chat-GPT instead tells me it could also appeal to men too. Then it goes on a big moralizing rant about how individual taste is more important gender identity.

🙄

@johnefrancis@mastodon.social @SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com I’m not a lawyer so I can’t comment on legality. Technically, it’s possible but I think most people would prefer to make public posts.

There was a time when Internet users loved clicking links. Hence the popularity of sites like Digg and Delicious.

But Big Social has successfully trained people to not click links that take them outside their social network.

And this behaviour is hard to break. Especially on mobile where people prefer apps over web browser.

How to optimize content for the Fediverse?

If you’re providing links, share a screenshot if the article too.

The screenshot should probably be optimized for mobile. Preferably with highlights so they don’t have to search for the relevant part.

Why?

Because people are lazy, and hate leaving their client when they’re in the midst of scrolling through their feeds.

Don’t get me wrong, they like links. If they see a link, they believe you’ve done due diligence and research. But they probably won’t click it.

@pinetta@fedi.software By the way, how is Pinetta doing?

@tchambers@indieweb.social Yes, they have. The only reason people are oblivious to this is because you have to go to Google to find the indexing. But what do you want to bet that Google will eventually provide more specialized search for the Fediverse? And that it will be real-time—akin to Twitter search?

@SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com Even if you cut off federation from Meta (or anyone else), you will be searchable.

Technically, it’s not that hard to index the Fediverse. Hell, you don’t even need ActivityPub to do it. If you have the budget to do it, Fediverse search is trivial.

The reason good Fediverse search engines haven’t existed yet is simply because, until this year, no corporation bothered to care about it.

You think #P92 (a.k.a, #Threads) will be built without one of the most essential features of most modern social networks?

Most #Instagram user—who will be the primary audience for Threads—will expect search. No, they won’t just expect it. They’ll assume it’s coming.

And #Meta would be foolish to not give them search.