"#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
@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.
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.
@volkris @josemurilo
I would get rid of the copying #dotcons path that we are currently on, or at a basic path balance this with other more native #openweb paths like the #OMN projects I talk about, as examples.
This is beyond urgent, do you think the might be a critical mass at some point soon?