Gregory's Server@thegibson do focus groups often ask questions about products as they existed 15 years ago?
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 @thegibson another technology pattern that might be similar is the Greasemonkey one. WordPress plugins are somewhat similar, but usually take on bigger chunks of functionality than I'm thinking of, and of course only work on WP. @thegibson OpenSocial was a open standard for having this kind of social platform experience. Parts of the standard became ActivityPub.  @evan I think we have had that phase here over the last 7 years. And that era was fun. But normalizing facebookâs track record over their intervening period is giving them a pass for behavior that is not unlike a supervillain or a massive organized crime syndicate that endangers people, communities, and frankly, entire societies. I am a little shocked that anyone can consider their involvement with anything to be a net positive. |
@thegibson regardless, I think one thing that's going to be interesting on the fediverse is how we build and support client apps. I think client developers should be able to make small incremental changes and integrate them into the rest of your social experience. That kind of ecosystem reminds me of the Facebook Platform, which was dynamic, chaotic, fevered, and weird. I wondered how other people thought about that era in social networking.