If you’re being perceived a different way than you intend, I find it’s best to simply apologise, explain that what your intention was and clarify what you mean.

It’s not just you that can mistakenly imply, others can mistakenly infer things too; such is the nature of human to human communication. (Considering we’re just a mess of electrical impluses it’s a miracle we can communicate ideas at all tbh)

Just be yourself, apologise and clarify if it comes across incorrectly, learn from the immediate feedback and I feel critically; don’t be trying to keep to guidelines of how you need to behave in a conversation. Be yourself, be in the moment. If you’re trying to micromanage your behaviour in the moment, people will sense that and it’ll put them off.

Just try to lean towards replies that hear the other person and show them kindness, but don’t overthink it on a day to day

Is there a reason you were called a dick? You kind of skimmed over that.

Here’s some go tos:

• Ask follow up questions
• Be kind
• Keep an eye out for signals that they need/want to leave the conversation

Have you read Discworld? It’s a bit more fun than The Witcher but has similar twists on traditional fantasy and magic ideas

100% the boyf tunes out on most my gaming YTer bullshit but enjoys AA, the absurdity and the Sims help 😅

I’m very new to contributing in that kind of style, git and code is scary to me; I’m more here for research, recommendations and element design.

What would be the best way to contribute non-coding expertise? I always feel like I’m imposing in these kind of spaces when I want to offer advice and insights as they come from such a different sphere

There’s profit motive in having terrible forward compatibility.

Oh your phone can’t get new the version? Better buy a new one.

Even now, if it wasn’t for non-user replaceable batteries, I’m sure loads of people wouldn’t bother to upgrade devices for years and years. My dad is still running an iPhone X, sees no reason to upgrade and it’s just losing latest OS support now. Not that that would bother him 😅

100% If it’s not contributing to the bottom line, it’s out

There’s 2 “Link to post” buttons The chain icon takes you to the post/comment but within your home instance, the Fediverse icon does the same thing, but the link is directly to the original post/comment’s instance.

I like the metaphor of Home and Neighborhood, I reckon that would resonate with potential users

If I hadn’t already settled into Mastodon I would have been super lost, still was to a degree…

And Join-Lemmy seemed to be pushing me to Lemmygrad, which is cute, but I wanted something more general and had only heard of beehaw through other people discussing Lemmy

The iconography on posts is pretty confusing too, needs some good labeling “Open in Home Instance” & “Open in Original Instance” would help

I think something to focus on would be a clean and easy-to-understand explanation of Lemmy and how the instances federate together.

This is still something Mastodon is struggling with when it comes to onboarding. Even for the technologically minded, it can be a steep curve and there are potentially a lot of other people who will balk at the walls of text and technical jargon.

Obviously, it all can’t be fixed overnight, but I feel a lot can be done to improve the onboarding for users without overloading them with information.

Maybe a small step-by-step wizard-style system to help someone find and instance and explain Lemmy in bite-sized chunks of info would be a good first step.

Professionally I’m a UX Designer and Business Design consultant and I’d love to be able to lend expertise to the project!

So you’re hanging out on Reddit to ensure people aren’t spreading snake lies?

that’s admirable

I’m Australian so we’ve always been taught to be wary of snakes; know that they’re more scared of us than we are of them and give them a wide berth if spotted.

Snakes like to sun themselves on paths and people often don’t see them until they’re right on top of the poor thing

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Maybe some others, but those are the ones that jumped out in my Sub list!

Am I going to regret asking for more information about snake myths?

Went ahead and deleted my account, might as well tear off the bandaid

100% too gross for me