Enthralled by this taxonomy from a blog post by @erlend about developing the #CommunityApp on top of the @matrix protocol.

https://writing.exchange/@erlend/110712778752844998

Of particular interest is the importance of always being able to explicitly link to prior work as individuals (or self-forming groups) develop + refine new ways of seeing issues. 1/2

Erlend Sogge Heggen (@[email protected])

Communal Bonfires; creating space for group-scale discourse on top of @[email protected] https://blog.erlend.sh/communal-bonfires Today we're pre-releasing Commune, our first foundational step towards a community platform built specifically for alignment with digital gardens. Cyber-ecological messaging anyone?! It's an evolving piece of software serving as the primary bonfire component of the overarching Community OS concept. https://github.com/commune-os/commune-server #fediverse #opensource #threadiverse #community #matrix #CommuneApp

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@erlend It'll be interesting to see over time whether structured, topic-centric UXes foster more of these behaviors, or whether people keep inventing ad hoc ways to meet similar needs using microblog affordances.

And particularly which communities or intellectual traditions tend to gravitate to each mode. (I have my hunches, but zero data to back them up.) 2/2