Scott Jenson

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Scott Jenson
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Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time. mastodon.social: 2017-2022 Blog: https://jenson.org/about LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottjenson/ Where: California Bay Area Chat with me: https://jenson.org/go/meet
RE: We really have a problem here. Good people are being mansplained/harassed off of the platform. (It's been a problem for years actually) It just takes just 1% of us to make this place feel overwhelmingly bad. 99% of us are lovely, tolerant people. We can't let these victims fend for themselves. Call out reply guy/mansplaining/(or worse) behavior. We fix this by supporting each other. We get the culture we tolerate. View quoted note →
There was a recent poll here about what Desktop OS you use and Linux was the most popular answer. This proves this community is far more technical than your average consumer. I'm not critical of that, I'm just saying we need to appreciate we aren't representative of that vast majority of people out there. I can't even get "normies" to *consider* joining the fediverse. I don't want to "chase numbers" I want my family members to be safe but we're doing a terrible job attracting them. image
RE: There are 300K+ views on Youtube of my talk! I've never had a talk get this amount of traction. I'm a bit in shock. It's confusing as I've been speaking/writing about this for years. Somehow the stars aligned this time. Upside is that I've had lots of interesting conversations with folks because of this. View quoted note →
So hypothetically, (I'm NOT suggesting this literally, this is for discussion purposes only!) Prompt: if users ONLY had Public/Followers only/Private as 'base' post types, how would they be negatively impacted? *Specifically* what types of posts would fall through the cracks? How limited would Followers only really be? Goal: There obviously would be negative impact. By discussing how, we can brainstorm BETTER ways of giving them this functionality