The Fediverse Challenge
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In follow-up to the issues I outlined in the Mastodon versus Fediverse discussion, here I want to address an even broader, more urgent topic that I have been trying to put to attention for some time. What I find the most intriguing and challenging - and the general objective that SocialHub was created for - is not so much the individual choices of a FOSS project, but rather: "How to keep things moving and ensure Fediverse evolves in a healthy and steady way?" Whatever you think of Signal m...

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Recent talk on direction of #mastodon are not what’s most relevant for our #fediverse future. Decisions of an individual #foss project are theirs to make. More important is where fedi as a whole is headed to.

A “Tragedy of the Commons” is at play. #TheFediverseChallenge is to remain relevant and healthy far into the future.

Individualism only gets us so far, but for Mastodon and other federated projects their choices are understandable. But only teamplayers will win!

  • @Liwott
    1•3 years ago

    My last point is probably also better put in that context

    Although it did also make sense the way I originally meant it : Esperanto would be a more app-agnostic implementation of AP (for example one to be developed on SocialHub), people would still find imperfections and the way to go may be to mostly follow it for interoperability while doing slight adaptations.