The strangest thing to me about our social tools and networks is how super-limited their feature-sets and philosophies have been in human terms.
It feels like designing a house entirely around the best use of new light-switch technology. How can we reinvent the bathmat???
It's weird.
@kissane so, I think one reason for this is that it's agonizing to build new social graphs.
It would be nice to build apps that do new things in different ways, but re-use our existing graphs.
Facebook Platform worked like this. You could build games, tools, or apps using the FB graph and identity. OpenSocial had a similar system, but built as an open standard.
This is why we built the ActivityPub API - to encourage this kind of client-side innovation. I'd like to see that used more here.
@evan Ummm, yes, that’s why I was asking for thoughts, as in “more thoughts”, specifically around its apparent lack of relatively common use.
If you thought I was being snarky or inflammatory, you’re wrong, genuinely ignorant and curious, and this seemed like a perfect time to ask an expert about this given the context.
Is it actually used more than people realise? Why/why not? Anything being done about it? Is it too late with mastodons dominance? What’s it like? Do people dis-/like it?
Erin Kissane
Evan Prodromou
maegul