Mastodawn

There are interesting paradigm shifts possible today, which result in great opportunities to break the browser oligopoly, and SaaS + cloud vendor hegemony of Web 2.0 with its Rube Goldberg technology stack.

@strypey referred to one of them, in a post to the Open App Ecosystem community group on #Loomio: The #hypermedia #web.

Since my hobby (it doesn't earn income yet) involves elaborating #SX methodology as a Social experience designer, I thought it interesting to add my follow-up from that perspective..

https://www.loomio.com/d/VYPyO17M/building-interactive-websites-in-a-post-framework-web/13

#SocialCoding #SocialExperienceDesign #SocialWeb #fediverse

Building interactive websites in a post-framework web

I recently stumbled across Daz's guide to building websites using HDA (Hypermedia-Driven Architecture), as an replacement for heavy and regularly obsoleted JavaScript frameworks like React. The finer details of his code examples go over my head, but what I think I understand from his description of the architecture, and the reasoning behind it, seems groundbreaking.The examples in Daz's guide are based around using HTMX. A comment on SH mentioned DataStar, which is maybe an alternative to HTMX? Certainly seems to have similar goals from what I read on their homepage.From what I read in Daz's guide, it seems like adopting this kind of approach to interactive web interfaces like Loomio, and fediverse web apps, could be a game-changer. Massively reducing the complexity of feature development and maintenance, and avoiding the cycle of having to massively refactor every time the JS framework in use becomes obsolete.Thoughts?

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🫧 socialcoding..4d ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#SX is Emergent evolutionary design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqUYpGQIfs

#SocialCoding

Emergent Complexity

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🫧 socialcoding..Mar 30

#ThoughtProvoker

Uncomfortable questions..

- To what extent is #FOSS complicit to the rise of #BigTech?

- To what extent is FOSS complicit to disruptive #AI craze we face today?

- To what extent are vibe coding #LLM even possible without FOSS?

"BUT.. BUT.. The License!"

- To what extent does slapping on a license free us from responsibility, knowing that it hardly offers protection from abuse?

- To what extent did FOSS too just introduce the tech and damn the externalities?

- To what extent is FOSS complicit to the current state of the world?

- To what extent is it enough to consider FOSS to be "imbibed by good morals and values" if we can't defend those?

#poll #ethics

We are clear. Because our intentions are good.

8.6%

We are clear. We just code. Bad actors abuse it

12.1%

We must find better ways to protect our work.

69%

Other (please comment)

10.3%

Poll ended at Apr 2 at 5:41am.

🫧 socialcoding..Mar 27

#ThoughtProvoker

App-centrism is a re-centralization force in the #ActivityPub fediverse.

For the #fediverse the accepted app-centric #SocialNetwork work method is a decentralized NPM-like dependency hell waiting to happen.

Apps that introduce extensions become owners of parts of the specs when they become de-facto standards. We can only hope for responsible #ownership, and that the project stays around to keep their #design docs and code in the air.

The #FEP and the #SocialCG are two points of #centralization we find acceptable to help mitigate protocol decay and tech debt. It is not ideal, but a bandaid to keep an utterly fragmented developer ecosystem together.

The people who do most of this holding together are volunteers that can be counted on one hand. They may burnout and leave any day, in typical #FOSS fashion.

#SX investigates the concept of #GrassrootsOpenStandards, where the standardization process matches social dynamics that exist in our #commons.

🫧 socialcoding..Mar 13

#ThoughtProvoker

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..Mar 4

#ThoughtProvoker

#AI / #LLM technologies are an existential threat to #humanity well before we even get anywhere near #AGI and the singularity.

The sheer scale of deployment and integration in all the nooks and crannies of society, where we give it access to all our information, and now with the Rise of the Agents, let AI act on them too. Giving full control away from us..

.. to the owners of this technology, the #BigTech usual suspects, and their billionaire class. Folks who are clearly out to dominate us, and keep us in check so they can continue their fancy lifestyles wallowing in decadence and moral depravity.

🤖 Unrestrained AI is the tech for 🧛 unrestrained elites.

🫧 socialcoding..Mar 3

#ThoughtProvoker

"Ex-Google PM Vibe Codes Palantir To Watch The Iran Strikes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8o7AeHDzg

Alright. Another #poll ..

Is this person's proud presentation of their creative work ..

#AI #LLM #ResponsibleTechnology #Ethics #TechnologyInnovation #Progress #Future #Society

Responsible + ethical? Make us aware of the danger

33.3%

Techbroist myopic? Tech means progress, right?

66.7%

Something inbetween (please comment)

Poll ended at Mar 10 at 11:36pm.

Ex-Google PM Builds God's Eye to Monitor Iran in 4D

A week ago I built WorldView, my geospatial command center that kind of broke the internet. Then the Iran strikes happened, and I realized I was sitting on t...

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🫧 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 1

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

Noting a small likely unintentional side effect of the ability to edit #Microblog posts on the fediverse..

It enables would-be influencers to use that as a growth-hacking tactic in their arsenal. Whereby editing a post some time after it was published, will serve to remind all people who interacted with it before (by receiving the 'edited' notification). And for those who only favorited another stimulus and opportunity to boost the post as well.

#SX #SocialCoding #ActivityPub #Microblogging #fediverse #SocialWeb

🫧 socialcoding..Feb 27

#ThoughtProvoker

Cross-referenced toots may be called "universal linkrot references" or ULR's.

Fediverse then, is ULR-based social media.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116141469199837056

🫧 socialcoding.. (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Anyone asked where the #ActivityPub dev community’s communication went to, can let a broad beaming smile come to their face, svivel their eyes skywards, then make a broad gesture with their arms, and exclaim solemnly “To the fediverse, my friend. To the fediverse”. And the dotted clouds high above in the steel blue sky will smile back at them, wave and gesture, and sing in a non-melodious cacophony “Here we are, come join us”. And so we all do. It is a sight to behold. 🥹 Or with a tad less sarcasm, you might also say: Even though it is a medium that is not up to the task of holding a grassroots open-standards based ecosystem together, #Microblogging #SocialMedia has become the preferred channel for communication in the app-centric #fediverse. Majority of dev happens in the federated cloud and is driven by app owners. Though luckily there is also a minority of ecosystem atmosphere custodians who help study the weather patterns of the future #SocialWeb.

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