Thoughts after reading “The Fediverse is Already Dead”
Finished reading The Fediverse is Already Dead by noracodes j and still trying to work out what I think — which I love. Some initial thoughts:
- ActivityPub is where it’s at. I keep wondering if there’s a way ActivityPub can help make social graphs so those are the networks we talk about rather than the tool, such as Mastodon
- I like the distinction of talking about communities and prioritizing the values of the particular server or instance
- I would also separate the idea of a network which can cross communities
- Tools like Micro.blog are using ActivityPub to help people publish and share across tools — even different form factors
- Others like Write.as let you publish to Mastodon. I worry about the value of that republishing when it doesn't come with engagement
- PolicyKit is a decentralized tool that replaces permissions/roles with rules/policies. I wonder if it could be integrated with, say, a mastodon server so that the community itself could determine the rules
- I just read about Spring '83 last night so this might really be recency bias but ... I wonder how the concept of a “board” articulated in that protocol could be used to help follow across a wide variety of published content and how it could play with/use ActivityPub