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The #fediverse is a consensus between app #developers on the app #features they want to spend time on to connect with the next app.

Taking care of their own herd, the users that flocked to their platform, they form narrow #interoperability bridges, so a user may graze a bit of the grass in the adjacent meadow that is owned by a fellow dev.

Until now this #app-centric land ownership model works quite well, as a recent #poll with delightful outcome among the lifestock has shown. And for every new land owner we can just build exponential more bridges to connect them all. Right?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116154415408228188

#SX #SocialCoding #PeopleNotUsers #ReimagineSocial

🫧 socialcoding..4d ago

It takes #courage to dare to look stupid, or to express unpopular opinons.

https://sharif.io/looking-stupid

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307124

The willingness to look stupid plays out daily across the world on the boundary between devs and managers. Between where #tech is created and where it should earn income for the whole group.

Of course the general sentiment on the tech side is that all managers are fools with their unrealistic #expectations and demands. And vice versa on the #manager side they think you can never trust a techie to build the right thing, because #devs live in their own world where everything is tech.

Those who have to navigate the boundary between these classes should face the willingness to look stupid to both sides and defend the most rational middle way of the road. I am talking about the poor Jen's in "The #IT Crowd".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd

#SX #SocialCoding

Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work

Looking foolish is underrated.

🫧 socialcoding..5d ago

I see the #fedi announcement by a commercial marketing agency of a venture capital based app store joining the fediverse.

Is the #fediverse we have capable of avoiding #enshittification as it grows and attracts an increasing number of corporations, who make it their market?

Is our #ActivityPub landscape resistant to corporate capture and eventual takeover and domination? Just like the Corporate Web, also decentralized.

There are nice niches on the web, like a bloggosphere, bulletin boards, and news readers, that all still exist. But web as a whole is predominantly corporate, arguably not commons based, for the people by the people.

Social experience design defines "commons based" as "where people are in control of their future on a path of healthy evolution and natural growth". A core principle is being sustainable at all times, and timely acknowledge and mitigate risks.

Is fediverse commons based? Did we cocreate the Future of Social networking?

#SX #SocialCoding #poll #AskFedi

	Yes, we're decentralized, no one can hurt us
	No, unless we carefully organize a good defense
	No unless with drastic reorg of both social + tech
	Other (please comment)

Poll ends at Mar 19 at 8:16am.

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🫧 socialcoding..Mar 4

Even more remarkable is the near complete absence of the #ActivityPub developer community in mingling in the social side of the discussion.

To learn how #fedizens actually *experience* this here fediverse. A #fediverse which results from them tying their apps together, to hopefully get more than the sum of individual parts. By means of facilitating #interoperability, technically speaking. But it involves more than getting that feature across the wire to the next app.

There's exists a clear gap between #sociosphere and #technosphere, where the latter must serve the former to bring real solutions. Otherwise it is all apps and not much seamless social fabric to navigate. No peopleverse anywhere in sight. Just apps and users of them.

The apps see great success, and I enjoy their use a lot. But I don't see a future for the app-centric fediverse where it comes to providing mankind the future of #SocialNetworking.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116109447243110037

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

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🫧 socialcoding..Mar 3

@johannab I for my part are very happy you find this interesting. Addressing the social side is not the most popular among developer-heavy crowds :)

Feel welcome to participate in our matrix channels or forum. The latter serves as a note-taking tool, or - under SX definition - as a commons based prosperity vault, aggregating value over time as people leave their 2 cents.

Note the SX Mindfulness principle of Social coding commons.. the movement moves, or it pauses awaiting value aggregation by the next participant. Timeless. Everything hinges on proactive participation (and on the basis of intrinsic motivation following Hedonic peer production principles).

I am mentioning, as at the moment the movement is slow-moving, since I am looking for income to sustain my work in the commons. In other words I must let the SX Sustainability principle prevail now :)

Here a link to the core principles of Social experience design:

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#core-principles

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

How We Reimagine the Social Web

We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.

Social coding commons

🫧 socialcoding..Mar 3

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

With quote posts we are able to shape our own micro #wiki's within our timelines and those of others, buld social graphs (technosphere) and navigate social fabric (socioshere) ..

What might we be be able to weave if the #ActivityPub #LinkedData aspects were used to their full extent and benefit?

Social semantic fabrics.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #fediverse

🫧 socialcoding..Mar 3

Glimmers of hope in dark times, #fediverse!

Look at the #delightful responses to this #poll asking how people experience our emerging fedi..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116154415408228188

A #SocialMedia landscape of small villages, scattered with occasional larger cities, is the general perception thus far and that is a wonderful difference when contrasting to corporate ad-driven influencer-dominated platforms we have today.

It would be nice if some of the people who voted Ghost Town gave their impression and needs they have wrt the fediverse.. cc @mikeymikey

Also ghost-towners, check out @FediThing reply to the poll's thread:

https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/116159075105561569

And @nicol reply at:

https://social.coop/@nicol/116159026520231736

If you didn't vote yet, do so now. And consider adding your boost. It is literally about uplifting our online social universe. 🌻

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

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🫧 socialcoding..Mar 3

@unattributed exactly.

I practiced myself in avoidance of the term, and found that to be refreshing and lending a different perspective.

"Users" carries an aspect of depersonalization, but also implies an ownership relationship that creeps into the developers thinking, and even where the noble ones say "I serve MY users" it has consequences to the entire dynamics around software dynamics, and how the solution deliverable is able to serve the needs of different stakeholder groups.

Social experience design focusses on needs-based development and starts to consider problem statements first for all identified stakeholders in the solution delivery process.

For fediverse I use #fedizens on occasion, the residents of the fedi universe.

#SX #SocialCoding

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🫧 socialcoding..Mar 2

Even more than Gleam community the AS/AP based fediverse faces existential threats where it comes to the promise to lead us towards "the future of social networking", a peopleverse. And #AI poses high danger risks that must be known, so we can anticipate and mitigate them timely.

But above all we have to find ways to constructively collaborate with each in this chaotic grassroots environment we are part of.

#Collaboration and #cocreation at scale, organic growth and sustainable evolution are applied research areas of Social coding commons, where participants add value while working on their own solutions, following their self-interests in alignment with those of other people

To folks who are interested in the general subject matter I addressed above, I recommend watching the talk given by Michiel Leenaars of @nlnet at #FOSDEM last month:

"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI" by @michiel

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/

#SX #SocialCoding #fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialWeb

FOSDEM 2026 - FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI

🫧 socialcoding..Mar 2

Whatever we think of #AI / #LLM mad hype cycle, we have to deal with its rushed and inhumane dumping of the technology into global human society.

#CALMculture is a strategic approach to that allows activist voices to have the most impact in dealing with the dangers of disruptive technology introductions, and focuses beyond berating people and demanding sacrifice ("don't use, or else.."), to creating a process that helps win people over and work together on best outcomes and in direction of solutions.

#CALM stands for Constructive activism-led movements, such as Social coding commons. Coding is social, and #SocialCoding the holistic approach to ensure that.

Social coding commons evolves Social experience design or #SX, solution development for grassroots movements, supported by the #SocialWeb.

In the thread below I copied a post to #Gleam's community with a suggestion to ponder about best outcomes from current and ongoing AI disruption, and deal with risks.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/calm-culture-to-ensure-best-outcomes-to-ai-disruption/831

CALM culture to ensure best outcomes to AI disruption

I posted a Question topic “Ensuring best outcomes from AI disruption” to the Gleam community. I shall copy the text below … As an activist with a strategic mindset I note how so much activism that is out there is very haphazard, inefficient, and may even backfire. And with the mad AI hype cycle things are no different. Opponents of AI do awareness-raising, give stern “though shall not use this” warnings, and who does use AI against their advice gets dealt out strong judgment, dogpiling, cance...

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