An important word that needs some thought is “permissionless” The body is made up of three different, balanced groups: Stakeholders – the people who do the work, who run/mod the fediverse Users – the people who use the tools/services, who use the fediverse The Affiliate Stakeholders – the people who commit time to support the…
There are circles in protest and most alternative grassroots movements
There are circles in protest and most alternative grassroots movements. It’s a moment of beauty when a group of people find power and worth in what they are/doing in reaction to #mainstreaming entrenched power pushing over them. But what happens next has a long much recurring bad outcome, so is worth taking a little time…
The geekproblem – humanity’s and science
Coding projects that come from the humanity’s general fail as they are not technically coherent and build out from abstract ideas without real relevance to lived humanity, they are too disconnected to become relevant to communertys of use. Coding from science tend to fail because they are inhuman, and are built for mashions. They serve…
Should we do something that is native to the Fediverse, and what would this look like?
The #Fediverse is #anarchism this is likely the best description of the community. A represents the Greek anarkhia (‘without ruler/authority’), and the circle can be read as the letter O , standing for order or organization. We currently have a Herding cats governance in the Fediverse and the projects that make it up An idiom…
From chaos comes order
“You first need to discover as much as possible relevant items within the desired domain, meaning that everything needs to be discoverable (i.e. it needs to be made available and be accessible, but also the right structure and metadata need to be in place for everything to be properly indexed and categorised)” The #OMN is…
#mainstreaming #openweb standerds to the #EU
I have been working with a group based around the activitypub socialhub to outreach the #fedivers and #activitypub standard to the #EU in seminars you can see the video recording in this post. Looking like the #EU will trial a few fedivers apps as tools for communication. ActivityPub For Administrations (with chat) 2021-04-19 This is…
“governance” in open-source projects
Our current working models of “governance” in open-source projects are Monarchy (the dictator for life), Aristocracy (the devs), oligarchy (the NGO/ funders) and finally way out on the edge Democracy (the users). If we are to have a positive social impact, we need to consciously shift from these forms of governance to something more based…
To understand the social/tech #hashtags
To understand the social/tech #hashtags I have been using for the last 10 years you need to use a tool from political science called ideology. It’s a simple idea, widely excepted for the last 200 years. How it works, by looking at powerful social groups thinkers have “distilled” generalizations that hold these groups together and…
If we close everything we are left with the evil, a bad outcome
What do you think *should* be closed? Or at least is OK to be closed? Let’s start from a traditional liberal view: The majority of social interactions should be done in the OPEN and some private interactions should be done CLOSED. We can discuss from this. What the current dogma misses is that just about…
A talk goes off topic – what is an #ecryptionist is illustrated.
Q. Grumpy old geeks have a valid point of view http://scripting.com/2021/04/02/145549.html?title=pleadingForStallman Pleading for Stallman A. but no TLS. Q. this is a valid point of view too http://scripting.com/2014/08/08/myBlogDoesntNeedHttps.html My blog doesn’t need HTTPS A. It’s a valid point that Google and Amazon have monopolist interests and are trying to enforce them. Nevertheless, TLS is an…
outreaching ActivityPub to the EU – draft
This was an interesting process playing a role to do the document – outreaching ActivityPub to the EU https://pad.public.cat/p/ngi0-ec-activitypub-liaison-presentation-2021-04-19#/13 Good to get an outcome from this: #activertypub as a cross-platform standard for #dotcons who operate in EU funding to further this – we would need democratic structures in the #fedivers style to make this real…