blaineNov 19, 2022

There is a clear line between the cultural factions on Mastodon:

Community Groups vs Broadcast Social Media.

This tent has to be big enough for both. Thankfully, the protocols support this. @darius's Hometown fork of Mastodon is even better than Mastodon for small community groups (but still federates where you need it!)

We need a Mastodon fork (or AP server) that works more like Twitter, for more broadcast orientated individuals and organizations.

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This will take work, but I feel certain that the good part is that both sides of this fence can be happier with this sort of arrangement than they ever were on Twitter.

The best part is that the Fediverse protocols were designed from the ground up with this sort of ecosystem cooperation in mind. 💜🤝💜

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@blaine That’s one of the things that interests me about it here; we’re at a stage where people are keen to know and set out the rules of the road, and of whatever instance they’re on, given everything that just happened. In that respect, it feels more like the establishment of actual communities, rather than subsisting on a product. Not everyone will feel this way, though. Some people want to be the pioneers who build the first infrastructure. Some want to come later as they here it’s better.
Nov 19, 2022 at 7:18amMastodon for iOS
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@blaine There’s also something which reminds me of the Graeber / Wengrow work in ‘The Dawn of Everything’ on three controls / three freedoms. One of their freedoms that might be thought of in civilisations was the freedom to leave - you could decide to get up and go from one community, without much personal cost, and go and join another. Mastodon feels like the platform has this built in from the off, with instances model etc.
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@blaine fwiw, I found Graeber & Wengrow’s three freedoms /controls really useful as lenses to examine all sorts of aspects of communities - wrote some things up back in the summer, still thinking through best use of the tool / framework etc - over here if it’s of interest - https://smithery.com/2022/06/15/introducing-the-community-power-compass/
Introducing the Community Power Compass

The background context for a tool for investigating and evaluating different types of community, particularly those in the Web3 space.

Smithery