Convener: David Rowley

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Charles Iliya Krempeaux (@reiver@mastodon.social)
• Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop)
• JohannaB
• Kirsten Lembertsen
• Scott M. Stolz (@scott@loves.tech, @scott@codejournal.dev, @scott.codejournal.dev)

Notes

• what if had certification for Mastodon servers so that joinmastodon had confidence in sending new users there as part of a default choice
• mastodon team discussing starter packs
• first UXer of Mastodon, aware of challenges,seeks new fresh ideas.
• DR: What if when new users joined, they have a very, very limited experience
• they couldn’t, for example do a lot of the regular features
• DR: metaphor of “constraints” being similar to very young children at day-care holding a rope when walking outside
• CIK: What if when new people joined, we figure out why (ex: interest in some famous singer, talk about some specific politics, etc), and then give them that experience (maybe by auto-following certain people and hash-tas, auto-joining certain groups, maybe auto-muting certain things, etc).*
• Some known, published constraints can be good for minimizing tech support, techinfrastructure, etc. and they are not good for UX but they might e justified and known. E.g. 1,2,3,4,5,