I want to highlight this response because I often feel this way.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@KentNavalesi/115605106392628909
I want to highlight this response because I often feel this way. But, many of the people who have found their way to the fedi are already interested in software. It can be alien to your ‘average person’.
Just the other day my mother asked: “Why do I see posts from people I don’t know on Facebook?” I explained that was the algorithm. ”So, someone *else* just decides what I see?! that’s awful.”
She only just noticed! But, she seemed more open in that moment to learning about alternatives.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@KentNavalesi/115605106392628909
I want to highlight this response because I often feel this way. But, many of the people who have found their way to the fedi are already interested in software. It can be alien to your ‘average person’.
Just the other day my mother asked: “Why do I see posts from people I don’t know on Facebook?” I explained that was the algorithm. ”So, someone *else* just decides what I see?! that’s awful.”
She only just noticed! But, she seemed more open in that moment to learning about alternatives.
For many people programs are immutable. They just are the way that they are. Thinking about a computer program or search engine as something that you could shape or change to suit your purposes isn’t what our computer education teaches.
People expect to work within the limits of the applications and software— not play a role in shaping its design.
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