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What do you think of the revolutionary potential of the #Fediverse?
For me it's clear: people having control of a [[decentralized]]/[[distributed]] digital [[commons]] yields a liquid democratic platform which can be used to optimize large scale communication for mutual understanding and cooperation, leading to a meaningful global revolution via logical increments.
@flancian federating our #second brains and other #ToolsForThought together to create true cross-silo, AI-enhanced collective intelligence .
@flancian I just saw recently an instance trying to centralize the fediverse by starting a group server. On this server are accounts that are named after groups. To be part of a group, you follow that account. So, for example, say there's an account called "psychology". People that are interested in psychology simply follow that account. This is an example of effective centralization of a decentralized platform. You can break the fediverse?
@tkenben interesting! a priori it sounds useful -- similar to how an Agora node can aggregate posts from the Fediverse?
I could imagine linking #psychology@social.coop (assuming a # syntax for groups/channels?) and #psychology@mastodon.social in some way -- that is, have groups federate. I'm not sure this is "just" centralization, or at least it might have decentralized potential?
@tkenben
Theres a couple of these. They were attempts to, kind of, 'bolt-on' groups functionality to work across activitypub.
Theres also been various fediverse platforms that have made their own group functionality implementations. There was some chats between different devs of such platforms at making interactions across different implementations possible (begin creating a standard?) but not sure it got far? @flancian