@uriel yes, very nice, thank you.

The whole #AI thing is quite interesting from a Social experience design perspective. #SX has Humanity and Freedom as intrinsic values, and the aim is to develop unobtrusive, harmonious, and humane technologies that serve people's needs.

From that perspective I am anti #LLM as the disruptive introduction in society is totally irresponsible, making it inhumane technology. Yet unlike with blockchain there are also undeniable upsides, numerous positive applications of the technology too.

I think the biggest near-term risk is the dehumanization and further erosion of social fabric between humans, which is to the benefit to festering #hypercapitalism and the #EpsteinClass who ultimately owns the technology.

SX defines #CALMculture, for Constructive activism-led movements. I think the way I see most people conduct #activism against AI, closing ears and ostracising AI fans, is doomed to be ineffective. CALM involves cocreating pathway towards solutions.

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

In 2025 and with support of @nlnet I was able to continue my efforts, started in 2017, to help forge molecular bonds in our #fediverse petri dish, via my method of "Weaving in public", instrument of Social experience design. See:

https://discuss.coding.social/t/weaving-in-public-connecting-people-and-interests/85

The wicked problem is, when trying to organize for world improving radical change.. You can't be an atom that shouts: "All aboard! Let's form an organism and free us from the dish of #Hypercapitalism". It is not how Nature works. And yet, this is what we try to do, each in our own ways, and the means we are able provide.

To do this requires sustainable #evolution at scale for prolonged periods of time. To deliberately evolve into what we want to become: a better #future.

All our attempts to artificially scale, against forces of Nature, are doomed to fail. Nature emerges naturally, spontaneously, and grows organically.

We face the #Paradox of #Emergence in how we organize ourselves.

Topic of my next blog post..

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#fediverse is at an inflection point.

Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.

Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.

#AskFedi do you dare to dream?

This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.

Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.

I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@j9t @chatcontrol @EUCommission

Generally speaking the pursuit of creating "The European Union of Mistrust" isn't the way to go.

Sure, #governments have an urge for control in hypercomplex modern and chaotic #society. But just throwing #tech at it, is NOT the way, and will only backfire. Look only how much much 'safer' the world has become with all the advanced tech we already dumped into society, right?

If we want to build harmonious and peaceful societies that have the right conditions for #democracy to flourish, we better look at fostering social #cohesion between people. Focus on people's virtues, rather than assume vices in a distrust-first society.

"Distrust-first" is the environment of #hypercapitalism, where vices thrive and unfairly advantage people who wield them more.

#Trust is the currency that allows society to progress, and #trustworthiness is upon which it can stand.

@torgeros for sure! There is nothing I disagree with in what you say. It is just that there are many intricate forces and aspects to take into account where it comes to (F)OSS, 'world improvement', and transitioning to a society that is able to live sustainably with its environenment / has a future.

Btw, I am talking against the backdrop of what I was just posting about (and which may have led you to find this toot).. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116136189819727192

My general argument, I guess, is that we tend to dictate way too many virtues to the fact that something is (F)OSS. Software freedom is a great quality, but only one piece of a larger puzzle.

If we drop the towel after #WorkingInPublic until #ItsFoss we won't be able to let our work bring most benefit to society, in a direction beyond festering #hypercapitalism