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  1. 🫧 Social coding commons @[email protected] ·

    #ThoughtProvoker 🤔

    #fediverse is at an inflection point.

    Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

    Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

    #AskFedi do you dare to dream?

    This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

    Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

    I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

    coding.social/blog/grassroots-

    But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

    #SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

    #thoughtprovoker #fediverse #activitypub #reimaginesocial #innovation #askfedi
  2. 🫧 Social coding commons @[email protected] ·

    #ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

    App-centrism is a re-centralization force in the #ActivityPub fediverse.

    For the #fediverse the accepted app-centric #SocialNetwork work method is a decentralized NPM-like dependency hell waiting to happen.

    Apps that introduce extensions become owners of parts of the specs when they become de-facto standards. We can only hope for responsible #ownership, and that the project stays around to keep their #design docs and code in the air.

    The #FEP and the #SocialCG are two points of #centralization we find acceptable to help mitigate protocol decay and tech debt. It is not ideal, but a bandaid to keep an utterly fragmented developer ecosystem together.

    The people who do most of this holding together are volunteers that can be counted on one hand. They may burnout and leave any day, in typical #FOSS fashion.

    #SX investigates the concept of #GrassrootsOpenStandards, where the standardization process matches social dynamics that exist in our #commons.

    #thoughtprovoker #activitypub #fediverse #socialnetwork #ownership #design