Ancestors

Written by Matt Baer on 2024-09-28 at 02:04

The fediverse is a strange place to be sometimes. It's an open network where progress happens in fits and starts in random, often hidden, pockets. And the rest don't often hear what's really going on. In the 6 years I've built on #ActivityPub, we've all had to fight for some kind of coordination.

Especially re: the new #SocialWebFoundation (which I've backed as an outside supporter via my tiny company @write_as), you can see something new is happening.

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Written by Matt Baer on 2024-09-28 at 02:06

E.g. the days of every fedi platform needing to be open source (as you'd get dogpiled for back in 2018) are gone. Proprietary platforms and major corps like Meta are joining, and they're collaborating with other major fedi platforms behind the scenes to take this all mainstream.

But that's what's happening right now, just so everyone knows.

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Written by Matt Baer on 2024-09-28 at 02:07

And there should probably be some more transparency. And it can absolutely be alienating, especially to long-time fedizens.

But it doesn't exclude similar efforts from everyone building this space. It doesn't crush those fighting for what has made this place great in the first place.

The fediverse is everyone's, and we should all recognize that. Don't lose hope. Keep on building the web we all want to see.

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Toot

Written by wordsmith‽ ⁂ on 2024-09-28 at 20:17

@matt I'm oddly glad that there is nothing anyone can do to stop any person, organisation or company being part of the Fediverse, despite the fact that I deeply despise facebook et al, and everything they stand for.

I think that as long as any entity can join and participate in it, it will continue to be implacable in its neutrality as a medium, the fabric upon which space is woven.

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Descendants

Written by Matt Baer on 2024-09-29 at 00:56

@wordsmith My thoughts exactly (including my disdain for Meta).

The fediverse has always been about open collaboration, not competition. I don't think this kind of gatekeeping and NIMBY-ism helps the community at all, and I think it's wasted energy to fight against ourselves like this.

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