Notices by Scott Jenson (scottjenson@social.coop)

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That is being actively worked on

I'm very interested in the new iPadOS 26 changes. So many things have been added to make it more like Mac: a menu bar, resizing windows, and even a dock! It's an interesting mix, it's *like* the Mac but still quite different.

I don't want to get conspiratorial, just saying that Apple's motivation is tarnished. They tried to get us to leave the Mac (remember the "What's a computer?" adds from 2017?) and we just wouldn't go: iPadOS just wasn't powerful enough.

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So now, admitting defeat they're doing the only thing they can, making it more "mac-ish". The jury is still out, but I expect most users are going to have an 'uncanny valley' reaction to this, getting weirded out/confused when switching between them.

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But even that isn't really the point. I'm just more sad that the Mac UX (at the OS level at least) has pretty much been dead in the water for nearly 10 years. There are so many things that could have happened to improve desktop windowing, text editing, file management (I was doing UX research on lots of ways to improve these things)

I'm not anti-iPad, I'm anti "make the iPad mimic a 10 year old OS"

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I was on a panel today at the FITC conference and I kind of just blurted out:

"Low fidelity prototypes are built with arrows while high Fidelity prototypes are built with pixels"

The point being that low Fidelity prototypes are about the movement between within a product where high Fidelity prototypes focus on one screen at a time.

It's overly simplistic to be sure but it gets to the core superpower of low fi work: it focuses on higher level questions that no vibe coding will ever get you.

@tchambers
I'm a little more hopeful, there are hard and easy problems on your list. All with fixes on our roadmap.

The "can't see all replies" is a deeply hard federation problem but we have an incoming fix for that!

On the other side, Improving DMs is something that requires no change to the API and can be easily done in the client. I'm working on that right now.

I see significant improvement in your "sins" over the next year.

@colo_lee @tchambers

That seems a bit harsh. it's not like these decisions were made to be bad on purpose. What so many people don't appreciate is that federation is hard!

There are deep api fixes coming that will address many of these issues. There is a good reason BlueSky is still a single server...

Totally not scientific poll: Do you use Lists on the Fediverse? If so how?

I've tried using them but they just feel a bit tedious as it's not easy to edit them.
#mastodon #ux #list

I don't care that this is a side app and not part of the main Mastodon web app. The fact that this is possible AT ALL is what makes the fediverse so awesome!
https://social.hastily.cc/@neiman/114591328088507928

#wwdc is just a snoozefest. I mean, these are all reasonable improvements, but it feels like a 'dot release'. To be fair, this has been building for a while (iOS and Android) I'm not really dunking on Apple, more appreciating that things are just slowing down.

Good riddance. Instant Apps were a VERY poor version of the web. So many of us within Google tried to appeal to better instincts. So much time wasted on this silliness.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114677013202481295

@tchambers "She was framed by Bookkeeper
Wittenmark. That little snake." took me completely by surprise. That had me gasping for breath I was laughing to hard

I just binge watched the first 6 episodes of #Murderbot in what feels like 19 minutes...

I'm stealing this image from @gergelyorosz where he said:
"Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties. Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking. Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors." (2/2)

The web is much like giving away candy at Halloween. As long a real people show up it's fun and community building. But AI companies show up with a 1000 clones wearing jeans and a Hulk mask and demand all the candy (and don't build community).

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#fediforum I'd love some Fedi-stickers for my laptop. I saw a particularly amazing one on @_elena 's laptop in her film. Any links to places I could buy them?

I was a #FediForumAttendee and would love to connect!

@tchambers @dansup @mark @samhenrigold @fediversenews

There are really two classes of problems:
1. Simple things that should be fixed ASAP (e.g. Better onboarding)
2. Hard things because federation just makes everything harder but nobody really understands that (e.g. the "can't see all replies" problem (which is being worked on!))

I'm so happy you're making this list! Let me know if I can help.

Thanks @tchambers for the reminder! I just bought my ticket.
https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/114580893882864228

@tchambers @pfefferle @mattwiebe @obenland @nuriapenya @donnacavalier @linos @fediversenews

My single-author blog, with very light activity, has been toying with the idea of doing this but as I just post a link to my blog posts manually, it wasn't clear to me there was much value in doing this? Am I missing something important?