Jeff JarvisNov 25, 2022
With Twitter's collapse, funders should start helping build up federated discourse: supporting development of better security, of moderation aids, of proposals for affordances welcoming to Black Twitter and other communities. Stop thinking top down. Start thinking emergent.
Stop thinking about how to help newspapers. Start thinking about how to help communities and culture speaking for themselves. This is a place to start.
Show threadJeff YangNov 25, 2022
@jeffjarvis Defintiely have seen some pushback out there against changing Mastodon to reflect the influx of Twitfugees. But demographic growth and change demand evolution of platforms just as they demand evolution of nation-states. There have been people saying “oh, they should just create their own instance with its own rules if they need something different”; that’s a recipe for segregation and online confederacy, not federation 😬
Show threadJeff Yang
@jeffjarvis I do think it’ll be interesting to see what happens when Tumblr federates with Mastodon though—I suspect any entity that has big enough footprint and resources will inevitably play a big role in the platform’s evolution and force change—while causing backlash at the same time. A single large platform joining will be very different in impact from a disaggregated influx of individual members.
Nov 25, 2022 at 6:34pmWeb