@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. Just re-thinking this a moment... What if it can be seen as individuals that define their own communities (which may / may not overlap).
@unattributed exactly.
I practiced myself in avoidance of the term, and found that to be refreshing and lending a different perspective.
"Users" carries an aspect of depersonalization, but also implies an ownership relationship that creeps into the developers thinking, and even where the noble ones say "I serve MY users" it has consequences to the entire dynamics around software dynamics, and how the solution deliverable is able to serve the needs of different stakeholder groups.
Social experience design focusses on needs-based development and starts to consider problem statements first for all identified stakeholders in the solution delivery process.
For fediverse I use #fedizens on occasion, the residents of the fedi universe.
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