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Here is how you can easily contribute design to FOSS 🤗 :

A: Just don't. Do not waste your time it – is not going to happen. Nobody is interested to put in work to make your contribution work.

- or -

B: Lurk around for 4 years, get a grasp who is important, get to know their preferences, try to grab attention by doing small favors, keep doing that for half a year. When you're almost part of the family find the perfect moment when you suspect there isn't much going on, ask one specific person directly if they could maybe find the time - wait another 6 months. Then remind about your contribution attempt. Then, THIS IS IMPORTANT TO GET EXACTLY RIGHT: .... go to step A:
European Commission · 19w
Over 75% of the world’s food crops need pollinators. Yet, bee populations have dropped globally over recent decades due to: 🔸 habitat loss 🔸 climate change 🔸 excessive use of pesticide...
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@nprofile1q... I don't get it what Mastodon has to do with bees.

Do you post similar things to suggest facebook, google or instagram are out of touch with reality, too?

Or, 🤔 Since you post it on mastodon, you want to show how you give in to silliness?

This is too goolge for me - , err… meta. 🤯
Markus Beckedahl · 20w
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Scott Jenson · 32w
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@nprofile1q... I don't see much wiggle-room for improvement if it is not clear how it works under the hood.

Ideally encryption feels almost imperceptible, and needs a mere indication on the side, but I guess the UX work won't be to GET THERE – but is to make the emerging pain points more bearable. 😂

I think the UX you would want to improve is connected more with the FEP itself than any UI concerns. Depending on what they come up with you'll be free to do what you want – or deal with strange constraints. (Key handling seems to be the arch enemy of UX in encryption if you ask me :P)
Scott Jenson · 32w
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@nprofile1q... I'm pessimistic up to the point where you have to have to assume it will fail completely. Just as XMPP and MAIL failed.

The only encryption implementation with success were the approaches where the UX can be controlled centrally.

For MAIL there is #autocrypt now, it is astonishing of good it is – but email is still not encypted today.

XMPP/Jabber has OMEMO, but stillt struggles with client adoption and it isn't omnipresent.

Where it worked: #DeltaChat and #Signal both using a central library that can make sure encryption reliably lands at peoples fingertips.
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Scott Jenson · 32w
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Scott Jenson · 32w
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@nprofile1q... Interesting, seeing how other protocols got burned by adding encryption as an afterthought (XMPP, MAIL) I think we are still very very far away from having something comprehensive, reliable and usable. Unless that's a reality I'd shy away from promoting it unnecessarily loud. 🤷‍♂️

Encryption rocks though. I hope that FEP has lots of traction.
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Scott Jenson · 32w
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Scott Jenson · 32w
#mastondon Friends! There is a TON of improvements we could make to Private Mentions (often called DMs on other platforms) e.g. * getting them out of the public timeline * Having a stronger notifica...
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@nprofile1q... Don't really need encryption just for the DM edge-case. I only need to know where/for who exactly my message will pop up automatically, though.

Suggesting "encryption" exists in mastodon, how can one make sure it is interoperable with ActivityPub AND nobody gets it wrong and falsely assumes encryption is omnipresent, when it is absolutely not.
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Scott Jenson · 32w
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