It's an honour to announce that @jaz has joined the Newsmast Foundation as Commercial Advisor 👏
Jaz has supported the Newsmast Foundation since we first joined the Social Web. He's one of a small handful who realised the vision of our charity and believed in it from the start.
We can't wait to see how his experience helps us shape the future of Newsmast as we deliver our Apps for Change programme and help more communities join the Social Web.
Imho they are strengths, for sure. The spec shortcomings, protocol decay, and chaotic commons' inability to address them weigh up to a certain amount of resilience in the ecosystem that manages to grow *despite* these drawbacks. And also #ATProto simply by being better specified, documented, and accessible to implementers, has led to such uptake of the de facto standard, that it has become a lightning rod for the kinds of commercial attention we rather avoid for the fediverse (generally speaking).
However, we can do better than chaotic commons, and foster chaordic organization around ecoysystem formation, such that one day we can say that #ActivityPub is truly "commons based", i.e. people are in control, by the people for the people, and able to sustainably evolve and grow naturally.
Chaordic organization is quite fascinating, and it aligns to the social dynamics that are at play on the fediverse between people..
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#chaordic-organization
You know, it’s entirely possible to use ATProto without touching anything owned by Bluesky proper
Pretending that Bluesky is the whole of ATProto is like pretending the whole of the Fediverse is Mastodon
Stop using your ignorance as vindication in your choice of home platform, it’s not ATProto vs ActivityPub
It’s the Social Web vs centralized social media
Very elaborate notes, thanks for sharing. On #fediverse I read this, and totally agree:
> there is this huge gulf between people who design these systems and the people who will use these systems.
There are follow-up notes about maintenance and #moderation, and how volunteers burn out on upholding the always-on instances that #ActivityPub requires.
Interest areas where Social coding commons focuses. The fediverse by itself is just tech, created in a technosphere. Tech that should ultimately fulfill social needs of the people using it. In the sociosphere.
Social experience design #SX focuses on the intersection of #SocialWeb, #SustainableFOSS, and the #commons that creates it and relies on it. #Sustainability is a core principle, sustainable evolution and natural growth are objectives.
Moderation is but one of many #governance patterns that works at certain scales. SX is focused on overarching formation of #ChaordicOrganization.
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#chaordic-organization
RE: https://backend.newsmast.org/@newsmast/116261920157681498
终于上线啦！Newsmast基金会全新网站🎉
我们的新网站重点介绍“应用变革”项目，该项目旨在将真正秉持相同价值观的组织和团体引入社交网络。
新网站与我们之前的网站相比有了很大的改进，更加注重保护社交媒体信息共享生态系统的行动和解决方案。
快来看看吧👇
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there's a solution and it will last but it's going to take work from all of us. build the #SocialWeb on #ActivityPub. no algos. truly decentralized.
explain what's wrong with the other systems and why a little more complexity is worth it. promote a widely signed open letter.
create accounts here and encourage everyone you know to do so too. replicate relationships.
set an end date for using closed platforms and keep it.
It's finally here! The new Newsmast Foundation website 🎉
Our new website focuses on our Apps for Change programme which is bringing real values-aligned organisations and groups to the Social Web.
It's a big change from our original website with an increased focus on actions and solutions to protect information sharing ecosystems on social media.
Check it out 👇
AFAIK Link is a #blacksky user who is banned by #bluesky and thus non-existent to anyone using their by-far-the-most-popular app view on the #ATproto #ATmosphere. Rudy referred to this on the new @rabble.nz podcast. This is similar to being on another fedi server but blocked by mastodon dot social, except that @Mastodon is a much smaller percentage of the #SocialWeb and working to push users to other servers. The concern is how big VC influences such goals.
https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3mhgrd3zcj22g
If they introduce ads,use a different atproto app. If they put ads in the discover feed use a different feed. If they say having a bsky.social account means your non-public data can be sold migrate your account. If it applies to anyone using the bsky app, use Blacksky and talk to the same people.
Yeah, I dig @brucelawson 's podcast on the web, "For a Better Web".
In this episode, @evan wants all Tech Giants to join the Fediverse, start using ActivityPub, never mind the promotion of lies, hate, fascism.
The Social Web Foundation (@swf) seems to me as a fundamentally flawed project, because, as Audre Lorde so eloquently and famously put it:
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
Listen and discuss here:
We were being told to stop criticizing #bluesky and what their VC funding might mean, at the same time that their team knew that they had secretly taken much more than before from the same kinds of sources we were concerned about.
And of course this meant they could build on #ATproto much faster than anyone could with #ActivityPub, because our side refuses to believe we are somehow uniquely immune to the enshittification process that comes with that money.
The #SocialWeb is tired of your BS.
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