Matt CrosslinEarlier this month I found out the hard way that "what happens on Slack stays on Slack" is not true. Mastodon feels a bit more private since it is new, but I wonder how long it will be before screenshots of what is said here are broadcast out of here to people's friends and employers? Seems I am seeing people share some really incredible, deep stuff. But I wonder how long that will last?
Christina Hendricks@grandeped good point. I shared something yesterday I wouldn't put on Twitter. But I need to be careful because anyone can screenshot anything & send it out.
james@grandeped it's really gonna be an issue soon I think. The people coming in seem increasingly far away from the core friend groups that started a few days ago and aren't aware of boundaries in the same ways. we have lots of plans for making the community not fall apart, but it might be really hard to implement them in time
@Triplefox @grandeped I feel the urgency and the need. Is there anything any of us users can do?
Kate@clhendricksbc @Triplefox @grandeped I feel the same. Can those of us from outside the "core friend groups" help in any way?
@katebowles @grandeped @clhendricksbc i thought about it and the best i can come up with is to link people within the current network in a variety of ways so that it can reconstruct itself without relying on this platform. if what we're going for is preservation of the community, that is.
@Triplefox @katebowles @grandeped Yes, that might work. I would love it if we could have a platform that could avoid pushing people out and communities needing to re-form elsewhere because the platform has become problematic for them (or us...depending on the community). Perhaps that's my idealism talking.
@Triplefox @grandeped @clhendricksbc Does this partly depend on what "the community" consists of. Reading introductions and the public timeline I can see how important this space is and to be honest I feel pretty protective of that.
So part of the question about community is the question about what a community does, not just what a community is. That I think is what's exercising those of us who came here together.
Fredrik Graver 🎥🥌@katebowles @Triplefox @grandeped @clhendricksbc It does boil down to trust and responsiblity; trust in each other, responsibility to the community.
So far I find myself trusting people here, and that in turns increases my sense of responsibility. It seems to be that way for others too, and I hope that will continue.
Tanya **moved**@Triplefox @katebowles @grandeped @clhendricksbc I'm not sure I fully understand what you have in mind but I'm happy to help in any way that might be helpful. (Might need instructing...)
@Tdorey @katebowles @grandeped @clhendricksbc I'm thinking of things that I already see emerge naturally, like open invitations to off-site chats or game sessions. These events create subset communities, and the more frequently they occur the more you have a heterogenous network that doesn't rely on any one platform for its vibrancy.
@Triplefox @Tdorey @grandeped @clhendricksbc Events that create subset communities: this has really been on my mind, as all of this has recalled what happened with Mike Caulfield's federated wiki happenings. @cogdog and I were both involved, and what seemed to work was the event-status -- people getting together to get something done.
So I'm thinking about how these pop-up community events co-exist with more stable community spaces. Is this making sense?
@katebowles @Tdorey @cogdog @grandeped @clhendricksbc I'm only a little bit familiar with the federated wiki idea(I remember looking at some demonstration material) and would be interested in details about that
@Triplefox There are all sorts of explanations long and longer at Mike Caulfield's excellent blog. Here's one on the philosophy that came out of it. Mike has really been the driver of what started as federated wiki (developed with Ward Cunningham) and then was developed further as Wikity.
@katebowles @Tdorey @cogdog @grandeped @clhendricksbc this resonates with something I had thought of earlier and just added to my rooms proposal(bottom comment) https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon/issues/236
justpaige@katebowles @Triplefox @Tdorey @grandeped @clhendricksbc @cogdog 'eventedness' and pop up community in this space makes great sense. How to avoid a 'familiar workgroup' approach will be the challenge. Without the trawling net of Twitter, I can already see more depth, but fewer conversations in my day.
Michael Schmid@grandeped As I warn our 14yo, "The Internet is forever," well until Elon buys and bankrupts it, anyway.