Convener: Julia Kamin, ProSocial Design Network (@juliakamin.bsky.social)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Jesse Karmani (@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social)
• Gilles Dutilh (@depemig@social.coop)
• Jaz-Michael King (@jaz@toot.wales)
• Saskia Welch (@saskia@newsmast.social, @saskiakezia.com)
• Ivan Minutillo (@ivan@bonfire.cafe)
• Erin Kissane (@kissane@mas.to, @kissane.myatproto.social) — Qiqo Chat will no longer let me into calls, waving my hand here to say hi, would love to talk with folks about this sometime! :/
• Travis F W (@travisfw@fosstodon.org)
• Anthony Zone (@ozoned@social.ozoned.net, ozoned@ozoned.net)

Website: https://www.prosocialdesign.org/

Notes

• Question: when building products and digital spaces online, are there questions or challenges you have about getting healthier outcomes?
  • Jesse: how do you get people to use apps with healthy design instead of the addictive apps? (i.e., how to make them want to eat their vegetables?)
  • Ivan: I’d like to see pro-social design have a fediverse presence, to research with fediverse participants, and to work side-by-side with developers so that they can develop based on the research
  • Gilles: it’s good to get feedback for software you are building, and it’s very hard to build without that feedback. But as a user, I have thought, who am I to give feedback to developers?
• Julia: worked with Reddit mods and Wikipedia communities to do research; there is always some kind of connection in the community, may have their own goals and values
• Ivan: what are the next steps for Prosocial Design Network?
• Julia: assessing fedi folks interest in Prosocial Research. Currently working with Roblox to study how to create healthy, engaging spaces. Hoping to get funding to do a convening for next year focused on communities.
• Ivan: an idea: share one pattern from the library on a regular basis, could even propose some as FEPs and work with developers to encourage adoption of these UX patterns
• Better Feeds - what can you do in between engagement maximization algorithms and purely chronological feeds? How can you give people more agency and options in how to tune their feed algorithm
• Gilles: when I would open facebook, I didn’t really know why I opened it, I just felt an urge. If you have a new app, you would like to know which needs you are providing for them with functionality
• Ivan: try to overcome infinite scrolling; when you login, you don’t go straight to the feed, you go to a dashboard. gives you more agency
• Julia: what is the healthy thing we want to create vs. how do we transition people over to this new thing?
• Travis: we are still doing the 20-year-ago view of pulling in feeds of data from the database. How do we mirror the real world better? Are these 3-d spaces? What is the equivalent to going to the coffee shop?
• Gilles: have been planning to set up a local server for Basel, envisions an event dashboard
• Check this for connecting to the entire fediverse: https://fed.brid.gy/