🫧 socialcoding..#ThoughtProvoker 🤔
#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub #ReimagineSocial #fediverse #peopleverse
As precursor to my blog post announcement later today, here's my #SocialHub response to the topic on how to treat the #LinkedData based #ActivityPub open standard where messages can be expressed both as plain #JSON as well as in #JSONLD, leading to the most costly misconception that has dragged the #fediverse sideways from its original promise and power..
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/practices-around-json-formatting-of-json-ld-messages/8628/24
Practices around JSON formatting of JSON-LD messages
Fediverse-we-have is at a major inflection point And so I did, and seeing all the discussion here for which I thank you all, I decided to put in way more effort than originally intended, and delving into much deeper subject matter. The article quotes @SorteKanin and mentions others in this thread, especially @silverpill as the pillar who upholds the FEP process today. I read the discussion with interest, but skipping the implementation details, to take a broader perspective. All of you are rig...
#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.
| In the end I more or less read the whole article | |
| I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights | |
| I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas | |
| Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other |
Poll ends at .
Woozle Hypertwin@smallcircles I want to read it, and it's on a topic of importance to me, but I recognize that I don't have the focus or time.
Also, I'm quickly running into information for which I lack referents, making it difficult to digest what the article is saying.
I think what I'd need (for whatever that may be worth) in order to be able to digest this properly is some backgrounders on the major pieces mentioned:
- what is "solid project"?
- how does the "two people / pillars" situation correlate to the current state of Mastodon, specifically the Mastodon Foundation?
- exactly how has fedi strayed from [standards, early promise...]?
I'd probably have more to ask/say but I keep getting interrupted, which perhaps gives you some idea of why I'm not able to read the article properly right now... 
Dawn Ahukanna@woozle @smallcircles
Length of time to read something “from start to finish” should not be the only “value measure” of an expressed written article as I typically don’t read an article only once to fully comprehend(build a personal mental model). Otherwise I will skim and speedread to create a “mental gist” summary.
I’ve read “once through” all of the article with Saturday morning coffee, otherwise I would have read what I could within an allocated timebox to make previous time commitments.
Well said. Esp. when things are HARD, like the wicked problems that ail our world, #ClimateChange for instance. Everyone should contribute their fair share, right? Give just their 2 cents?
#Emergence deals with radical #Simplicity. But simple ain't easy.
Wicked problems require wicked solutions. Numerous tiny #solution increments made all over the place by different people. It requires 'thinking at scale' for prolonged times, and 'doing' on the basis of that. In terms of planning for that 'Bigger Ideas' need time to mature and ripen, and this too involves many people. And is emergent and evolutionary in nature too! This great animation on "Where good ideas come from" calls this the 'Slow Hunch"..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
#SX's slow hunch took 11 years.
There's another great vid by Rich HIckey, creator of #Clojure, besides "Hammock Driven Development" mentioned in the article, titled "Simple made Easy" given at a #StrangeLoop conference..
