efeefe's public microblogBookmark: The Future Was Federated
Page summary: A dissertation on a journey through the evolution of decentralized social media and the necessity for active, conscious digital citizenship, with all the power and danger that entails.
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It feels like I'm a few years too late in the fediweb discussion, but that's life - been doing other stuff for a while. Some months ago, though, as I was exploding my mind and collecting the pieces in the form of Coletora, the urge to reclaim my own timeline got more present. I've maintained blogs since the early 00s (changed blog engines many times, which made my personal archives inconsistent and full of encoding errors, but they're there nonetheless. Many of the projects I was involved with had blogs as a central documentation tool. The practice of tending and curating timelines also expanded to my 2-decade long (and still growing) list of bookmarks. I used tumblr, the good old twitter of back in the day, and many similar platforms that did not survive like the promising identi.ca (or was it... what?) and others.
But as walled gardens with algorithmically manipulated timelines took over online sociability, I too gave up on public timelines. Not completely - admittedly, I own an account on the *tagram thing to check on friends and do a bit of light stalking and egotripping, and occasionally check the LinkedThing to hustle for work.
In any case, I've been taking notes in private (btw ever heard of Obsidian? I'll write about it some other day) and my public documentation has gone more to wiki-like sorts of things. But that impulse to just post some text to nobody in particular and document a moment of insight still emerges from time to time. And in the absence of old-school twitter, my aesthetic repulsion of standard mastodon instances and the lack of real alternatives, I decided to give a go with this thing (pun intended). Let's see if it works, if I develop a habit, and if I'm able to maintain yet another microbit of infra.
I wonder what happens if I add hashtags here. #gotosocial #fediweb
ChadamsI admit to zero familiarity with Project Bedrock, but if it doesn't include some sort of customer support rating in its rubric, it's going to be useless.
Fabio