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Hi there fellow fedizen, it is great to see you in this community 😊

Why did I create this space, you ask? Well, first of all because Lemmy rocks of course, and I wanted to be part of the fun.

Fediverse Futures: Visions & Dreams

This community will focus on the future of the fediverse mostly. Because our potential is humongous and remains largely untapped. Fedi has come a long way, and has explored ‘doing social media differently’. Free, libre and open software, a great online culture, tremendous diversity and wonderful people.

It is time to go beyond microblogging and - like Lemmy and other splendid apps - go way further in the realm of possiblities. The dream of Fediverse Futures is …

“Social Media Reimagined”

Yeah, that’s right. We should go wild in exploring what is possible. Dream our most beautiful dreams, and cooperatively work on materializing them. Make them real.

In this space we’ll brainstorm and ideate, letting our imagination run free. This community is a companion to Fediverse Futures that exists at SocialHub. This community is non-technical at heart. It is for everyone dreaming fedi dreams.

Visionary ideas discussed here, can be taken further on the SocialHub forum to be elaborated and further flesh them out with more technical discussion.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
    10·
    4 years ago

    It is really cool to be able to witness how the Fediverse is being built in real time. I am excited to see how the different projects become intertwined in the coming years! I think that this is a step in the right direction for the future of the internet, and I have high hopes.

    • smallcirclesOPM
      8·
      4 years ago

      Yes, these are exciting times. I think it is also essential that we put real focus on elaborating how this future should look like. We are not there yet with fedi, it is still brittle and fragile. But if we continue to give it our collaborative efforts I am sure our ideas will soar :)

  • wakest
    7·
    4 years ago

    Thanks for making this post @humanetech@lemmy.ml, I really love the work of dogfooding our own infrastructure while we figure all this out. It is something that I have seen other web communities do very poorly and I think it is something we should be proud of.

    • smallcirclesOPM
      5·
      4 years ago

      Thank you. Yes, indeed, I think dogfooding should be greatly encouraged. At SocialHub we are making this more and more a point of attention, and the federated apps lend themselves ever more to be used that way, with great features continuously added.

    • smallcirclesOPM
      2·
      3 years ago

      Thanks! I use the term a lot and hope it will find broader use. It is imho a good way to refer to the subset of netizens that are part of the Fediverse. And it is shorter that “People of the Fediverse, …”, while highlighting that we are a community :)

        • smallcirclesOPM
          2·
          3 years ago

          Oh, that’s very interesting. Thank you for the offer, but for now I’ll just join, as I am already participating in too many places. I think a cool aspect to address in !fedizens@lemmy.ml is any collaborative initiatives and community interaction that takes place on fedi, such as the recently started Fedijams by @Houkime@fapsi.be.

            • smallcirclesOPM
              2·
              3 years ago

              Yes, in a way it does. All fedi-related sublemmy’s have some overlap. Here I usually mention ideas and ‘stuff that exists in the wild’ that may inspire different uses of the Fediverse, such as apps that go well beyond Microblogging (like FedeProxy). And then the subsequent brainstorm is the objective, so any furthering of those ideas with wildly imaginative additions goes :)

        • smallcirclesOPM
          1·
          3 years ago

          Idk, it sounds a bit weird. Why can’t they just be fedizens too? Feneas, the Federated Networks Association includes all federated protocols in their scope. I don’t know if they refer to that as Fediverse, but why not do that? After all there’s bridges being created between all the fedeated protocols, so we can all be one big family 😍

    • smallcirclesOPM
      1·
      3 years ago

      I hear this more often, and yeah it may be a bit ironic. But SocialHub is a community mostly targeted to technologists and using the best tool available in this case. There’s no real need to dogfood fedi to work on fedi’s evolution. You might see the forum as an instance with local-only posting ;p

      PS. Yes, it is a shame that Discourse returned the NGI Zero funding to add federation support. I created a topic to keep the subject warm. You could Like or Comment on it so it is bumped to the top of the forum again: Community has no Boundary: Discourse as a Fabric

        • smallcirclesOPM
          1·
          3 years ago

          Lemmy can be that, but is just not there yet if you compare feature-by-feature. I really love all the tools that Discourse provides for community-building and … well … discourse. There was talk on SocialHub before to move to Redaktor, a federated CMS, but that stalled. Idk if that would be an appropriate tool too.

    • nutomicA
      5·
      4 years ago

      Search the community url from your instance, and it will be fetched.

    • smallcirclesOPM
      1·
      4 years ago

      Good question. Shouldn’t that happen by default by the Lemmy instance, or do I have to configure something to achieve it?

      • sgornick
        2·
        4 years ago

        It was user error on my end. See my comment reply to u/nutomic