Augmented Reality filters are coming to the fediverse, first with Loops and soon Pixelfed!

[kubofhromoslav@esperanto.masto.host]

@kdekooter @dansup @moralapostel @anatolegc, what psychological tricks you mean?

Taste is subjective. Let's people enjoy their taste 🥰

[moralapostel@troet.cafe]

@ditol @anatolegc In my opinion, this is the beginning of a slow dumbing down of the Fediverse. The Fediverse should be better than an unreflective continuation of dependency-creating platforms.
@dansup @kdekooter

[chad@mstdn.ca]

@moralapostel @dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc

As a #MastoAdmin, you highly underestimate the addictivity of the #Fediverse. I hear from the community over a two-minute downtime.

These same folks are also have addictive tendancies to dihydrogen monoxide.

[moralapostel@troet.cafe]

@chad The latter is, after all, essential for survival ;)
@dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc

[chad@mstdn.ca]

@moralapostel @dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc

Yet, here we are.

Consider that the #fediverse is a third place for many, and allowing as many people as they see fit to interact with their third place only helps address the critical isolation crisis we see in many of our societies today.

You have no business telling others how they should interact with their third place, unless it harms you. A dog filter isn't going to harm you.

If you don't like it, you have very adequate timeline management and blocking tools at your disposal.

[ditol@freiburg.social]

@moralapostel
Dumbing down? I always considered a platform for short posts of less that 500 or even 200 characters as extremely dumb and making users dumber. I was never on Twitter for that reason. And yet somehow Twitter was the preferred platform by people with academic degrees. Mastodon has been doing a limit of under 500 char. for years. The community only decided recently to... dumb up I guess.

In short, I see this logic "dumb feature -> makes people dumb", but I have come to accept that things don't always work the way I expect. And this is one of those cases.

At the same time, I have never encountered furries on Mastodon, this subculture I find probably the most stupid ever. But there must be entire communities of furry fans on Mastodon and Pixelfed. And they might know what to do with those filters. And they should be given all tools they find useful, regardless of my opinion nobody ever asked me for anyway.

@anatolegc @dansup @kdekooter

[moralapostel@troet.cafe]

@chad You have a good point. However, saying "stay out of it, it's none of your business" on a federated platform where the aim is to hear and form opinions is in a class of its own. 😉
@dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc

[chad@mstdn.ca]

@moralapostel @dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc

That's absolutely not what I said.

Equate this to how people express their identity on the fediverse in other ways. Honestly, if you have an issue with a harmless dog filter, you must have an issue with furries, too.

Two harmless expressions, yet one seems reprehensible to you.

[moralapostel@troet.cafe]

@chad Yes, it's harmless at first. But it won't stop there. I foresee further shitification of the Fediverse. And I would find that very unfortunate.
Thank you for the objective discussion.
@dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc

[chad@mstdn.ca]

@moralapostel @dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc

Your application of the paradox of intolerance is horribly misapplied.

[colman@mastodon.ie]

@kubofhromoslav @kdekooter @dansup @moralapostel @anatolegc and maybe let’s not be dicks when expressing ours, that’s considerably more damaging to the system than a fake nose. 🙄

[chris@socialbc.ca]

@dansup @Dequei I would never…. But this is fun and cool for people. Nice work. :)

[chris@socialbc.ca]

@Cenbe @dansup he learned specific APIs in iOS to do this, so actually, regardless of your judgment of the outcome, it actually is a very good use of programmers time.

[dm29@mastodon.social]

@moralapostel @dansup @kdekooter @anatolegc copying addictive platforms in all except this is not and addiction-based ad selling platform. So I fully adhere with @dansup about adding features people want for the actual product (instead of the app itself for converting them, the people, in the product). You should calm down a bit anyway.

[nysloth@mastodon.online]

@dansup Wait. The ears aren’t real?

[kleisli@mastodon.social]

@kdekooter just keep in mind, the fediverse is and will be open and diverse, there is no "we, the fediverse". Many fediverse users hate AI, but others like it and post AI content. Same with "childish" filters. Same with people telling other people how they should be and what they should or should not do. @dansup @moralapostel @anatolegc

[kleisli@mastodon.social]

@Cenbe just think about what you could have done instead of writing that comment. What a waste of time and energy. @dansup

[olivier@pouchi.ca]

@chris @Cenbe great reply Chris. Some boomer Java dev added to block list.

[kleisli@mastodon.social]

@dansup I'm very impressed by your resilience, that you are still building, while with every feature you ship, some "guardians of the fediverse" feel the urge to tell you what to do and what not. And I heavily assume most of them don't even use pixelfed or loops.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@dansup agreed. It's ok to enjoy silly things. Let people have fun.

@moralapostel @anatolegc @kdekooter