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As part of a UX/UI design project for my studies, I’m currently analyzing the user experience and interface of BookWyrm. The goal is to identify areas for improvement while respecting the platform’s core values (decentralization, simplicity, accessibility, etc.).
I’m looking to gather feedback from actual or potential users of the platform. If you have a few minutes, your answers to the questions below would be extremely helpful: - What do you like most about BookWyrm? Which features do you use most frequently? - Are there any features or interactions that you find frustrating or unintuitive? - What features do you think are missing or could be improved? - How do you feel about the interface (design, readability, navigation)? - Do you use BookWyrm (or similar platforms) mainly to manage your personal library (individual use), or to get recommendations, join discussions, and engage with others (social use)? - Do you mainly use BookWyrm on a mobile device or on a computer? And why? - Do you also use other platforms (e.g., Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing)? If yes, what makes you prefer one over the other? - If you’ve never used BookWyrm, what’s holding you back? And conversely, what might encourage you to use it regularly?
Thank you so much for your input. I’d be happy to share the results of this analysis here if there’s interest.
Big thanks to all the useful idiots to helped make this happen. Pat yourselves on the back. You couldn’t even forgo a few hours of your entertainment to boycott a whitewashing event for an ongoing genocide. Go you!
"Daniel Levy, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project think tank, said that Israel’s government was 'desperately trying to find soft power venues' and that Eurovision was one of the few opportunities it had left."
https://www.nytimes.
What's the point of boycotting the vote? If you wanted to change the result, you should have voted for other countries, that's it. But if you keep silence, nobody counts your voice and nobody knows your opinion.
The comparison rankles supporters of Israel but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa
Great to join anti-fascist activists in Aberdeen today, standing up for Palestine, for refugees, for asylum seekers, against racism & fascism. #ImmigrationIsNotACrime
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-His children spoke fluent Hebrew. He married a Jewish woman. He wrote all his statements in Hebrew. He might as well have been a Jew.
-Out of 388 members only 16 were real Russians and all the rest Jews with the exception of a nigro from America. 265 of them came from the lower east side of new York.
In an unprecedented act of political courage, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, has openly challenged the World
The SGP has again rejected a motion to allow women to hold leadership roles - bringing up again the “it’s against the Bible” argument.
Yes, it’s 2025 in the progressive Netherlands, and we still have a political party with 3 seats in the Parliament that still refuses to accept that women can also be in charge.
I’ve always wondered what happens in the brain of a woman in the Dutch Bible belt that keeps supporting the SGP. It must be one the worst conceivable cases of Stockholm syndrome.
The conservative Protestant party SGP has again voted down a proposal to formally recognize women’s eligibility for political and administrative roles, maintaining a decades-long stance that continues to limit women's participation despite previous l…
@Bernard birth rates are plummeting in the US because the public support for working families (also dads, not only mums) is basically none, and the networks of support (grandparents, uncles etc.) are falling apart, often because of ideological divide (same reason why society is breaking down in America).
Give families more paid paternity/maternity leaves, covered health insurance for the first years of life, free daycare, subsidized nannies and better access to the house market for new families, and rest assured that more kids will come.
Of course telling women that their place is in the home, cooking meals and raising kids, is also an option. But, even if you want to discard the principle that every human being is entitled to pick whichever path in life they prefer, and even if you just want to decide on the basis of crude numbers, you’d basically be preventing half of your potential workforce from contributing to the economy.
Norway and Denmark have statistically more women in charge than the US, yet birth rates are higher. It probably means that women in charge aren’t the real issue here.
@Bernard the problem is much more nuanced than “SF strong independent women whoring around and pursuing careers”.
As usual, things aren’t black and white. Here in Europe we have many women in career that have kids and spend time with their families. Many of those kids go to my kid’s school, and their mothers still pick them up and cook meals for them - without giving up on their careers and turning full housewives.
Is it easy? Definitely not. Especially when your career is 100s/1000s km away from your family and your best hopes to get some time for yourself or with your partner is to drop $100 for a spoiled nanny. Me and my wife are in this expats-in-career parents situation too and we know it all too well.
But is the problem with women that want their own financial freedom, have career goals or want to contribute to the family?
Or is it with the fact that, especially in the US, it’s hard to get good work-life balance, that given the nature of its job market (much more competitive and much less regulated) it’s harder than elsewhere to pursue a career (or hold on your job) if you have family constraints and no support, that you don’t get enough paid leaves nor paternity/maternity leaves, that flying in your relatives and getting a visa for them if you’re from somewhere else is harder than in other places, that daycare is expensive, that healthcare is expensive, that welfare safety nets are nearly non-existant, that the gentrification problem caused by decades of single-family houses on one side and expensive high-rise buildings in major cities has left many post-boomer folks without a house to raise a family, and that the American ultra-capitalist lifestyle advertised this version of people (both men and women) who aggressively pursued their careers over everything else?
It’s easy to blame the issue of low fertility rates on the women who want a salary and forget all the deeper systemic issues, and forget that governments voted by people are also supported to fix these issues…
@Bernard I really can’t see a single rational explanation for the immigrant replacement theory.
I mean, all the data points point in the same direction: lower birth rates are natural as a society becomes more industrialized, urbanized and educated. But it’s not inevitable to get below the 2.1 threshold:
If the average citizen can afford a house to raise their family
If the job market is regulated, so the average worker (1) won’t lose their job if they want to start a family, and (2) can still get a decent salary to put food on the table for 1-3 extra toddlers
America is failing on all these points (and so are some European countries too, albeit for slightly different reasons).
And it’s because of deliberate political and economical choices.
Condition (1) doesn’t apply because Americans want a small government, because they feel like “it’s not their job to subsidize somebody else’s kids” (to use the words of a GOP Congress member), and because they feel that anything with the words “welfare” or “worker’s rights” in it automatically means a Soviet-style dystopia.
Condition (2) doesn’t apply because associations of home owners and real estate investors have disproportionate influence in America, much more than regulators, and if it’s in somebody’s interest that the value of their existing investments doesn’t go down then rest assured that it won’t matter to them if Joe can’t get out of his studio shared with two more IT professionals in downtown SF and buy a house to start a family with his girlfriend.
And condition (3) doesn’t apply because Americans wanted a hyper-capitalist society where employers have disproportionate power over employees, where the number of paid leaves is on average 40% of what we have in Europe, where it’s very easy for employers to prefer employees that can work until 9PM over those that have to go and pick up their kids from school and put a meal in front of them, and where paid parental leaves or education subsudies that are very common in Northern Europe are seen as leftover of Stalinism.
Then why complain when you get the kind of society that you wanted all along?
I mean, it’s easy to see who benefits from this system.
Those who don’t want welfare schemes usually don’t want to pay more taxes.
Those who don’t want more affordable housing usually don’t want more supply to dilute the value of their assets.
And those who don’t want more family-friendly regulation in workplaces are those who benefit from squeezing employees while not feeling like they’ve also got an obligation towards their families.
In other words, the system is broken because American capitalism is broken, and that’s because American capitalists benefit from it, and they don’t care if there won’t be enough citizens (American or not, it doesn’t matter to them) to keep their country running in 50 years - most of them won’t even be around in 50 years.
They genuinely don’t give a single fuck about replacing Americans with foreigners. They don’t have a single financial interest in loading trucks with migrants to cross the Mexican border. They only care of making profit out of the stuff that they already have, all while not having to move a finger, period.
But of course it’s in their interest that you believe that low birth rates happen because of whory SF independent women or because of liberals trying to replace Americans with foreigners. If you can blame the tragedy on someone else, while they keep sipping their fine wine, without anyone walking them to the guillotine for destroying the fabric of society…
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'There is no legal requirement in the United States for members of Congress, the Senate, the judicial branch, or the President to disclose dual citizenship status. The U.S. Constitution and federal laws outline specific eligibility criteria for these positions, but none mandate reporting additional citizenships beyond confirming U.S. citizenship.'
"Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, a noted AIPAC critic, on Wednesday introduced the "Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act" to "require candidates for federal office to disclose both their possession of dual citizenship and also the foreign country in which their dual citizenship is held."
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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:
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"To the question "Do you support the claim that the IDF, when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, that is, kill all its inhabitants?" 47% of all respondents responded in the affirmative. 65% of those surveyed responded that there is a contemporary incarnation of Amalek, and of these, 93% responded that the commandment to wipe out the memory of Amalek is also relevant to that modern-day Amalek.
It seems that Ginsburg and other Haredi rabbis can be especially proud of the change that has occurred in the Jewish population: 82% of those surveyed expressed support for the forced expulsion of residents of the Gaza Strip, and 56% supported the forced expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. In the 2003 survey, the positive answers to these questions were “only” 45% and 31%, respectively"
לפני 20 שנה שירטט הרב יצחק גינזבורג, האב הרוחני של נוער הגבעות, חזון לחיסול המוסדות הדמוקרטיים והשלטת עליונות יהודית. אחרי 7 באוקטובר נראה שהחזון הזה הולך ומתגשם במדויק לנגד עינינו
"The AI company I used to work for has already broken the law on such a level that you may as well make it legal" doesn't strike me as the most defensible argument.
One order “includes an invocation of the defense production act in order to spur a closer collaboration with private industry” to increase nuclear energy production.
Al-Awda Hospital, in the Tel al-Zaatar neighborhood of northern Gaza Strip, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian organizations following a devastating fire that engulfed its medicine warehouse.
There's been a frenetic push from the pro-Israel crowd in using the slain embassy staffers to argue that pro-Palestine protesters need to be shut down, and i...
Au Panama, la filiale de Chiquita, qui emploie environ 7.000 personnes, a informé avoir procédé au licenciement de tous ses travailleurs journaliers pour "abandon injustifié du travail".
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion. All the harbingers of collapse are visible: crumbling infrastructure; chronic underemployment and unemployment; the indiscriminate use of lethal force by police; political paralysis and stagnation; an economy built on the scaffolding of debt; nihilistic mass shootings in schools, universities, workplaces, malls, concert venues and movie theaters; opioid overdoses that kill some 64,000 people a year; an epidemic of suicides; unsustainable military expansion; gambling as a desperate tool of economic development and government revenue; the capture of power by a tiny, corrupt clique; censorship; the physical diminishing of public institutions ranging from schools and libraries to courts and medical facilities; the incessant bombardment by electronic hallucinations to divert us from the depressing sight that has become America and keep us trapped in illusions. We suffer the usual pathologies of impending death. I would be happy to be wrong. But I have seen this before. I know the warning signs. All I can say is get ready. --Chris Hedges
It's why I have given up on the Web entirely. But I'm simultaneously very glad for your work, because I really do think we need all the options from "how to do better right now" to "what would something look like that's fundamentally different?".
If only web hosts were more interoperable. Hopefully we’ll be able to build a good abstraction layer for Domain for this on the Small Web although I’m starting out with Hetzner too because it’s the easiest to use (API) and excellent value for money (we need to charge for the servers but I don’t want us or others to charge so much that it’s untenable for people. Maybe once we’ve proven the model works we can get governments/EU to take their heads out of their asses and support us from the common purse. Given what I’ve seen in the last decade with politicians and the EU, I’m not holding my breath for that and nor am I basing the system on it.)
@Aral Balkan On the other hand, if they had a predisposition for doing that they would not have that user base. But they seem to tolerate any abuse and care not what problems they cause for others.
@martijn Yes, anyone (including me) can easily fall into that trap. Convenience (low cost, ease of use, etc.) unfortunately often leads to hidden dependencies and a concentration on a few infrastructure and toolset providers somewhere down in the tech stack.
But even though decentralization will probably never be 100%, it always makes sense to think about it, try it, and be aware of it.
@mastodonmigration maybe it'd be a good idea writing about that from time to time, and especially the possibility of migration and how to do that. Many people cone to Mastodon through the default and remain there because forget/don't know/think it is too difficult migrating.
@Andreas F. @Sexybiggetje🐖 @Aral Balkan I run a friendica, hubzilla, and mastodon, the hubzilla and friendica both have a lot of protocols they speak so between then they interface with the vast majority of the fediverse. I personally prefer long format macro blogging and hence mostly use my friendica node, but many prefer the others. But point being that being connected to multiple networks and being able to connect to people on any of them provides a greater degree of diversity and less dependency upon one.
@mastodonmigration I would express it differently: if a network has economies of scale baked in, it is centralised, even if you don’t know it yet. So it was with the web, so it is with email, and ditto for ActivityPub/Mastodon. Federation is better than nothing but there is nothing in the protocol or in its big-tech stack implementations in the popular clients to prevent centralisation. The best tool we had was social pressure and that lever was summarily disposed of early on when the only folks who could have used it decided not to.
it reminds me of how the argument Eugen used against the "local only" post visibility feature was that it'd be a centralizing force. Says the strongest centralizing force in the fediverse...
@mastodonmigration I have seen this with my family's email host, it got marked as spam by Microsoft, and that was the end of things for several members of my family; they had to abandon their family email addresses.
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**🇮🇱✡️Le président du CRIF était à l'Assemblée Nationale française, une fois de plus. J'imagine ses instructions qu'il a donné aux députés ** :
1/ Débrouillez-vous pour pondre des lois qui criminalisent la critique d’Israël;
2/ Servez uniquement les intérêts d’Israël. On s'en fiche de la France. C'est juste une colonie en Europe pour aider à la réalisation du projet sioniste du "Grand Israël";
3/ Les arabes sont la cible d’Israël au Moyen-Orient, ce qui correspond, en France aux maghrébins et aux musulmans. Alors excluez-les de la république, en inventant qu'il serait dangereux et qu'il travaillerait pour des intérêts étranger. Je sais, c'est faux donc n'y a pas de preuve, mais nous, on peut tout dire, sans jamais avoir besoin de prouver. Vous n'avez qu'à leur coller nos défauts [communautarisme, séparatisme, violation de la laïcité, infiltration, domination,..], et de prétendre qu'il en serait les leurs. Et ne vous inquiétez pas, ils ne peuvent pas répondre. Ces cons n'ont accès ni aux médias ni au principales instances du pays, alors personne s'en fiche de leur avis. Et si certains osent contester cette version inventée de toute pièce, traitez-les d'islamiste/frériste et ça sera réglé;
4/ Enfin, je vous rappelle la carte Joker antisémite. C’est simple : Israël décide, la France exécute, et si un goy ose ouvrir sa grosse gueule d'abrutit qui croit qu'il a le droit à la liberté d'expression, alors fermez la lui direct, en le traitant d'antisémite. C'est compris bande de soumis ?Ne m'obligez pas à répéter, sinon, je briserai vos carrière en disant que vous êtes antisémites.
Newly elected Florida Rep Randy Fine rushed to blame 'Muslim terror' for the shooting of two Israeli embassy aides in DC on Wednesday night and declared that the pro-Palest
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to André Polykanine • • •Boycotts and sanctions helped rid South Africa of apartheid – is Israel next in line?
Chris McGreal (The Guardian)