Robin DeRosaKind of confused about how I feel. On the one hand, I am pretty actively looking to extricate myself from Twitter and FB (long game), so wanting replacement platforms that do many of the same things, since I use and depend on Twitter and FB on many levels. On the other hand, I'm also keen to find out what this place can be if it isn't built according to prior or prescripted architectures (especially ones that have so many fatal flaws). Just mulling.
Kate@actualham I just keeping coming back to "studio", and the idea of a creative coworking space. What would it need to have in it for a community of fellow travellers to be able to come here, work independently together, and share as we go? What's the architecture for that? @Bracken
Econproph@katebowles @actualham @Bracken I think we are getting at the formation of communities that might be linked/federated and open-ish, but not absolutely open: a screened-in porch and a front yard vs the middle of public main street that is FB/Twitter.
I don't know Mastodon architecture or code well enuf to say, so I'm only brainstorming (or BS'ing one might say) here. Might there be a way to identify toots as belonging to a particular community. Can't say why yet, but hashtag doesn't seem ..
@katebowles @actualham @Bracken 2) hashtag doesn't seem to do it - too subject specific. I want something that says "all the people in this room" - i.e. my open ed community. Twitter/FB don't do this. For example, I can't separate my family from work colleagues on FB.
Perhaps this is simply an interface issue, with making it easier to assign the people I follow to groups (rooms?) and then have a timeline just for that room and a different timeline for another room.
@econproph @actualham @Bracken Thinking: on Twitter, hashtags have the capacity to become persistent (in Australia, #auspol is a well known one). So a federated studio formation might need the capacity to build out rooms at this point, rather than necessarily forming as rooms right away and then seeing if they work or don't.
The screened sleepout is a lovely model. There's an urban design philosophy of "walkable neighbourhoods" that relates.
@econproph @actualham @Bracken This is the philosophy: https://www.walkscore.com/walkable-neighborhoods.shtml
The issue for any co-working space emerging from social networks is propensity to sameness. That's the issue that was raised at #opened16 and has to be front of mind here, or the "we" quickly becomes a sort mechanism for homogeneity.
Making an intentionally open community is really tough in this climate.
@econproph @katebowles @Bracken I love Tweetdeck columns, and columns here-- I wonder if they could do that somehow. I also like the idea of filtering. What if rooms stay open to all, but you could filter how you experience them? Lots of tools force me to choose between open and closed, and I am more interested in how we can maintain an open ethos while still being intimate/productive/focused, etc....
@actualham @katebowles @Bracken I like your reference to "filters" as an in between open & closed. It's esp attractive if the filters have enormous user-configuration ability.
If I had one suggestion for the Mastodon devs, it would be to create a core/plugin architecture along with frequent releases. IMO, that's the key (along with GPL) that enabled WP to conquer so much of the Web. A common core (not THAT "common core") with stds for user-created/shared plugins. Awesome platform.