@J12t@wearenew_public Given that we're in a world where FB and NextDoor and other things exist, it's hard for me to imagine a new thing displacing them, no matter how good the software and the culture it embodies.
But maybe it could wrap them, and thus provide something better - for those who want it right away - while offering a smooth upgrade path for people in the legacy services?
Not liking the terminology in this OpenID spec: "A federation can be expressed as an agreement between parties that trust each other."
As a non-technical example, the US of A is a federation. This implies that Texas and California trust each other. Doubtful.
It's also not the same way we think about the "federation" part of the Fediverse, although I'm not sure that we've ever attempted to crisply define what we mean by federation and not.
sounds right to me. trust the other server not to let their users cause problems for the users on my server. opt out not in cause we assume good faith. more like the articles of confederation than the constitution. no greater authority that we all have a say in.
I'm working on something really interesting. The "social web" -- a concept that has been around for decades but has fallen out of use and is atrophied because all we have are quasi-"social apps" Which Are Not That! -- it needs and wants a new breath of air.
If we re-imagined a truly social web with what we know today, what would it look like?
It's fascinating and so exciting!! Not sure when or whether I have something to share any time soon, but ... writing about it gets me all fired up!!
@J12t social implies shared activities and engagement but also artifacts to discover later (to remind us our past interactions and to stay passively aware of others in our various overlapping and intersecting circles - so we might re-engage with them in the future.
So how this might look:
supporting adhoc and regularly scheduled shared experiences (think monsterdon or bikenite but more often yet also not always “in public”
encourage shared and individual cocreation (wikis as one example
CS people / programmers who graduated or such in the last 10 years:
I'd love to know how you relate to make and Makefiles, because we currently use them in @feditest and I wonder whether that is too old school at this point.
In other news, the neighborhood squirrel apparently likes cucumber leaves. Who would have thought! Particularly one plant. Which is fighting on and producing a little cucumber in spite of very few leaves to work with.