What if an OS were designed and built by communities for their own needs
What if complexity wasn't swept under the rug
What if we could build and understand complex systems together (IE, not just with email and slack channels)
And what struck me was that even for something like social media (surely simpler than general computation?) ... we're likely quite far off in general and even here on the fedi that embraces (relatively) interoperation and distribution.
Realistically, platforms on the fedi are much closer in design to their commercial conterparts than one would hope for if your goal was community building and situating the process of digital/online community building within the community themselves.
Just as some are embracing federation with Threads ... I'm thinking that the second wave of fedi platforms (eg bonfire?) in which the big-social paradigms are undone couldn't come soon enough.
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