Jesse Karmani

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Speaking of... I’m so delighted to see apps like @terry.social.godier.me.ap.brid.gy ’s Currents being created! The calm, intentional design is so well thought out and so well done 🙌🏻

Currents is just for RSS, tho. I would *love* to see these design patterns be incorporated into other social feeds.

Where Does Community Live? ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional des...

This is an absolutely fantastic article by @laurenshof.online

connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...

doh! *our

when is that edit button coming bluesky?

But it is exciting to see some things similar to ideas I doodled in my notebook way back in 2018/2019 show up in real life and done by a designer with top notch skills! 😍

Since @frequency.app is built for personal connections rather than news outlets or voices you follow, some of Currents’ nice design elements wouldn’t fit or use case exactly.

I’ve been trying to put similar intentions into my calm mode design for @frequency.app, but given that design is definitely my weakest skill, I’m still iterating a lot on it. I’ve been better at articulating the problem than creating the solutions I’m seeking 😅

Phantom Obligation Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

As is the preceding blog post where Terry lays out why the current inbox-style design for feeds makes us feel so bad by creating “phantom obligation” to finish everything in the feed: www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli...

Current An RSS reader that doesn't count. What happens when you stop treating your feeds like an inbox and start treating them like a river.

The blog post explaining each of the design elements, the reasoning behind the design, and why certain design patterns weren’t included is fantastic ✨

www.terrygodier.com/current

Speaking of... I’m so delighted to see apps like @terry.social.godier.me.ap.brid.gy ’s Currents being created! The calm, intentional design is so well thought out and so well done 🙌🏻

Currents is just for RSS, tho. I would *love* to see these design patterns be incorporated into other social feeds.

😋 looks amazing! Happy Lunar New Year!

Oh cool, me too! I had not seen this

I had to say goodbye to my sweet little kitty Eva last week after 15 years of snuggles and love 😿

She was by my side almost my entire adult life, and I’m really missing her presence already.

She was so affectionate, a total velcro cat - always wanting to be in my lap or nuzzling me on my shoulder. She was very social too, climbing into friends’ laps the first time she met them.

She will be sorely missed by all who had the privilege to be on the receiving end of one of her cuddles 💕

I had to say goodbye to my sweet little kitty Eva last week after 15 years of snuggles and love 😿

She was by my side almost my entire adult life, and I’m really missing her presence already.

🫣 oh no

Very exciting stuff! I’ll be watching this space 👀

But they are arriving at the fight in a weaker position than usual. In a polarized world, their failures around child safety are increasingly the one thing that partisans of every stripe can agree on. Regulators are no longer impressed by the bare minimum. (They have teenagers of their own now, and all the screen-time battles that come with them.) I don’t know which trial or regulatory action will be the one that finally forces major changes to social platforms for teenagers. But it seems increasingly clear that change is in fact coming. And for the first time, some subset of users will find that the feed they are scrolling through suddenly comes to an end.

The walls are closing in on infinite-scroll feeds and other addictive design mechanics. I wrote about how lawyers and regulators may have finally found a way around Section 230 www.platformer.news/social-media...

The Everything Account I've been thinking a lot about our accounts lately. We all have an ever-growing pile of digital identities scattered across the web, many forgotten after a brief stint with a random service we found i...

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account"

If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others.

For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

Thanks 🙏🏻😊 I’ll give a shout if I keep seeing it! I love using the feature to have the highlighted section in the preview screenshot!

Thanks for taking a look! It’s different links on each platform, so I can’t reproduce for the same link. If I delete a link in a post and try the same one again, it fails consistently, but I suspect that’s a caching issue on the platform side. Any way to change cache headers for API failures?

Example thread with all previews working except one: frequency.app/@frequency/1...

@leaflet.pub I'm seeing link previews of highlighted text not working sometimes when posting to other places, but I'm having trouble determining why. I've made threads on mastodon linking to different highlighted sections of the same article. Most of them work but then one won't. Same with linkedin.

These are not easy design problems to solve, but I think we have to start trying new things. It's a bit frustrating to see things like the Center for Human Technology that is founded by folks who invented these design patterns talk about the harms but not put forward good alternatives.

I've tried adding pagination in frequency, but it felt clunky, so I put back the infinite feed and added a separate "zen mode" view so that you could toggle back and forth between the familiar infinite feed and one that gave you more information and control over how you browsed recent posts.

You vs. 1,000 Engineers - frequency social Why Apps Are Designed Against You

As we build new social apps, how do we break the harmful UX patterns as well? One I think about a lot is the infinite feed. Mastodon, bluesky, Pixelfed - everyone just copies this standard design pattern.

You vs. 1,000 Engineers - frequency social Why Apps Are Designed Against You

While writing about how engagement-maximizing features of social media are affecting us, a professional group I'm in shared tips for how to get your post seen on LinkedIn: make 3-4 comments on others' posts first - literally proving my point about inauthentic "engagement"!

At my peak I was "earning" several hundred dollars a month from X's creator revenue sharing program. Nothing changed on my end, but Twitter was now paying me. Almost immediately the entire platform was incentivized to post for engagement. Engagement farming got worse. I don't miss that part.

Yes! His Center for Humane Technology has an excellent list of all of the known harms of attention-maximizing apps with copious research citations: ledger.humanetech.com

Thanks for sharing! Yeah, that Hooked book is wild - just openly advocating for all of these design patterns to addict people. Of course, with a small aside about ethics, but the message is pretty clearly promoting hooking people.