Background These are just some notes related to my observation that: On Fediverse Ad-hoc Interoperability dominates and hampers innovation. Need to clarify some terminology that I frequently use relating to Social Coding #Foundations … “Any decentralized [ecosystem] requires a centralized substrate, and the more decentralized the approach is the more important it is that you can count on the underlying system.” — Byrne Hobart. The Promise and Paradox of Decentralization Glossary ter...

On the new Discuss Social Coding (that has not officially launched yet) I posted some notes on a particular challenge the fedi imho faces, that hampers adoption and poses growing risks in the future if not dealt with appropriately.

The notes leave a lot of things I’ve been looking deeper into unmentioned, but you may find them interesting nonetheless.

  • smallcirclesOPM
    3•2 years ago

    Yes, I get that question more often. It is because a link aggregator is still much different than a forum. Discourse comes with a host of features that aren’t or are not yet part of Lemmy. Other than that I agree with idea that it’d be way better if federated tools were used. In last funding round at NGI Zero (NLnet) https://pavilion.io was not selected, but they’ll go for the next funding round, and their plan is to bring Discourse to the Fediverse.