For this week’s #FollowFriday I recommend a very unique account, Ryan Barrett @snarfed.org@snarfed.org
He works on https://fed.brid.gy — an important exploration on bridging different protocols in the social web.
If you open his profile (i.e., open original page) it’s actually just his #PersonalSite — a peek into a future where individual personal sites transcend any “social network”
I'd like to give a heads-up to #SocialCoding movement where I'm involved and plan to revive the notion of #SX or Social experience design, esp. for the #SocialWeb.
So much chatter on #Fediverse is either deeply technical or app-specific. The field of SX may offer a more holistic and inclusive perspective, focus on methods, guidance and best-practices.
It's just a sketch in a different context (a Fediverse of fine-grained components & services instead of big siloed apps. #AppFreeComputing). It only depicts how a #Microblogging timeline might be richer.
One aspect of #SX may be to show what is possible in federated #UX, in order to inspire and envision a future #Peopleverse.
Some people prefer to talk about the "social web" instead of the "fediverse".
If you do, do you just prefer one term over another, or do you think "social web" could emcompass more functionality than what today's fediverse can do?
A #Peopleverse is a concept only, not a proposed name. It encompasses this vision, but not on a technical level. It is a socio-cultural concept.
A Peopleverse is simply where humans find online social networks in support of their day-to-day activities in a seamless connection to our offline world, and an enrichment to our lives.
Peopleverse is like a dream to strive for, and a vision to fight for, as inevitably there'll be forces that'll lead towards something much less.
Other than that, I also started to think of #SocialWeb as the encompassing concept, and #Fediverse as the current most popular instance of it.
This with "Social" relating to truly social, but also to the full range of technologies to support truly social experiences online. Those are much broader than only AS/AP which we tend to think of first when hearing Fediverse.
But the tech is just implementation detail, the #Peopleverse is what is collectively built.
In addition to thinking of a #SocialExperience instead of an app, there was an existing field of #SocialExperienceDesign or #SX, that never picked up. I intend to use that term again, as it is ideally suited to keep the eye on the ball, as it were: the vision of a #Peopleverse we create together.
SX goes beyond UX in that regard, as a) UX has become too app-focused, and b) we don't objectify 'users' but care about people.
I stick to #Peopleverse for this concept (and again: explicitly not consider it a name), as "for the People", and also "for you, personally". Each person has their own preferences on how they'd like to interact. I call that "personal social networking".
Other than that the technology should serve humanity, help uphold human rights i.e. be #HumaneTechnology.
For actual names I have no preference. #Fediverse may become as ubiquitous as Internet or Web.
I'm thinking I might stop using the term #fediverse#fedi or #activitypub when I want to talk about this community of federated social media services.
It's confusing and to be honest sounds way too much like a corporate brand trying to sell something.
I'm thinking I might start using something like "open internet" in general and "open social media" in particular to make the point that fedi isn't some specific thing; it's the default social media for the open internet.
I am using another term #Peopleverse, but not with intent for that to be a real name. More a vision for an online landscape that seamlessly aligns with our offline world and is in support of our daily lives.
#Nepal bans #TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony.
Well, yes.. how much do corporate #SocialMedia contribute to the unraveling of the social fabric of #society world-wide and erosion of #democracy, by how their algorithms #DoomPush every person by their gut to the next toxic asocial exchange that keeps them online and seeing more #ads?
I use #Peopleverse as a concept/vision (not a name) to indicate the state where our offline and online worlds seamlessly integrate and are enriching to our daily lives.
In this, the name of the online space stays Fediverse, but is more technical. Same as "internet" is. Peopleverse is inherently human and social.
It is also not "the" Peopleverse, but "a" Peopleverse. It is diverse, there isn't but one. It can be personal. Emerging on the Fediverse.
In reaction to the "Godfather of AI" resigning from Google to warn about the dangers ahead, some thoughts of how "personal social networking" on the #Fediverse, supporting genuine and intimate human connection between people online, will become increasingly valuable as #AI generated #misinformation will start flooding the web.
The #Culture that has matured over years of slow growth and which we continue to foster together is very important. Here we have a #Peopleverse.