"The feeling of becoming and emergence is what I love about decentralised social networks." - @michael

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https://www.blog-pat.ch/moving-sideways-paths-to-growth/

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Moving sideways: paths to growth on the social web

Network resilience on open social networks is emergent, writes Laurens Hof. Riffing on this, and looking beyond the recent DDoS attacks, the feeling of becoming and emergence is what I love about decentralised social networks. The wave of new users and servers on Mastodon in November 2022. The explosion of

Paths & Patches

#ThoughtProvoker  

@laurenshof wrote fabulous reports analysing our #SocialWeb and sadly this included raging techno-ideological #ProtocolWars too. How can we turn that to #Progress?

So much friction and heat in the raging discussions #ActivityPub vs. #ATProto 😭

🔮 What is *much* more relevant in #Bluesky vs AP is WHY ❔ Bluesky + ATProto gets the bigger uptake, despite compromising on #moral and #ethical values and #principles we hold dear.

Knowing the answers to that is where #opportunity for strategic action comes from. And subsequently following what you may call #FocusedPragmatism instead of just 'wild-coding' the chaotic #fedi with countless independent, uncoordinated "Show, don't tells" of yet more code to shove onto the #BigBallOfMud that fediverse-we-have increasingly represents.

#ActivityPubAPI provides such Opportunity.

To revive on a *greenfield basis* doing #Protocol design and adopt lessons-learned from APv1 #Microbloggosphere vs. #Atmosphere.

#SX

It's fine for developers to champion their own protocol and software, obviously you should be. But for the rest of us, it's much better to just be an advocate of #BringDownTheWalls & #BuildBridges / #BuildBridgesNotWalls. It's fine to have favourites, but try to avoid #ProtocolWars / #NetworkWars.

THE WAYBACK MACHINE IS ENGAGED.

Anyone else remember Interop?

#INTEROP #networking #protocolWars #decluttering

Am #Freitag, den #06.10.2023 ist von 16:00 bis 18:00 Uhr das erste FG-Treffen nach der Sommerpause. Wir versuchen es wieder #dual, also über #Jitsi und vor Ort in #Berlin. Angekündigt ist ein #Input von #AndreaKnaut zu den #ProtocolWars und dann geht es weiter in die #Diskussionen um #Gesellschaft, #Internet und #Zusammenhänge