"#TheFediverse doesn’t need to be one thing, that’s its strength. But if we let the #bridges decay, we lose the possibility of cross-pollination, of radical ideas seeping into #mainstreaming consciousness… Instead of fighting, as we do, to make one version of the #Fediverse dominant, maybe the real work is in keeping the network alive, messy, imperfect, but always connected. Because it’s in those #connections that real alternatives grow."
@hamishcampbell
https://hamishcampbell.com/why-the-fediverse-needs-a-connection-between-mainstreaming-and-grassroots/
I'd say the key is to always emphasize empowering of end users.
We don't need one version of the #Fediverse. We should promote a million versions as each user chooses and tweaks their interfaces to fix their needs and wants.
We don't need to keep the network messy. We need to *allow* it to be messy, without trying to shoehorn it into one particular idea of what it should be.
Unfortunately, too many devs seem intent on making it match their own aesthetics, forgetting the different opinions of users.
@hamishcampbell
I'd say one complication is the evolution/effort to get ActivityPub into more and varied types of interfaces.
The experience of someone accessing microblogs through Mastodon is going to be very different from someone accessing Lemmy content vs an interface focused on video sharing.
These new paths are kind of lateral to communities as there is the goal of having it all one big system, so any particular subculture would still intersect with each of these content types.
But then, I think the natural evolution as people figure out how to adapt to the more complicated network is going to be interested, mainly if it's not centrally managed.
I am working on this path https://hamishcampbell.com/its-not-easy-and-its-not-as-simple-as-clicking-sign-up-and-walking-into-a-ready-made-community/ might help as an example.
We have spent the last 5 years copying #Twitter, #YouTube, #Instagram this was a good first step, but now it's time for the second step, what would that look like?
A lot on this path here https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=Dev+omn
@hamishcampbell @volkris
Yes! I get what you are saying. We are somehow doing just that with museums in Brazil, experimenting with different WordPress plugins around the ActivityPub plugin. Tainacan—a plugin—is a complete digital repo used by Brazilian museums, and by legoing plugins, we can easily turn each collection item into a post to the Fediverse. We are now toying around a new plugin, that would manage the direct conversation of the digital collection with the Fediverse. It is total fun!
@josemurilo nice project:
Q. is it only category based or hashtags as well https://hamishcampbell.com/federating-metadata-flows-bridging-folksonomy-and-categories-for-the-omn/
Q. is the more than one instances? If so, how does it mediate the flows between instances, or do they each hold all the content?
Q is the plan public facing or institutional? If it is public facing, how do people get involved?
@josemurilo Good points :)
@volkris the issue with your comment is that the #Fediverse comes from a long history, and it embodies this history, which is where the value comes from.
Yes, it comes from meany sub cultures, these are better described as communities rather than users. Hope that makes sense.
Keeping mess is grassroots cultural, allowing it to be messy is neoliberal #mainstreaming?
I agree with your point about the devs and funding from #NGI and #NLnet an on rolling mess.