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[smallcircles@social.coop]

@Carl_Gylling oh yes, did I play Morrowind. Love the comparison, thanks :)

[octarine_wiggle@mastodon.au]

@smallcircles relatively quiet respite near the bathrooms at an overcrowded music festival when I can still hear the music from the stage but I'm not interested in the acts right now, and people are having semi private conversations around me that they've been wanting to have all day but waiting until they could hear each other, and the people chatting are here to see the same bands as me.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@octarine_wiggle I like that description, thanks.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@draNgNon that sounds a bit like influencer-style social media then. Is it a cacophony in a good way, or not? Would a Google+ like Circles functionality, such as Bonfire are bringing to the fediverse, bring solace?

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@samvarma @_elena

In a "too much" or "now we can safely make geek jokes" kind of way?

[unattributed@gotosocial.social]

@smallcircles I experience it as a web of interconnections that span the globe, and across my many intersecting and diverting interests.

[dodosan@diaspodon.fr]

@smallcircles "... mad scientist's urban planning experiment"

[princeofdenmark@mas.to]

@smallcircles “I thought we were an autonomous collective.”

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@maikel this is a very cool and relevant direction that explores new social networking use cases and areas, and where reflecting deeply on the social side of the equation will probably pay good divident when it comes to implementing the supportive technical side.

I posted the other day about the social networking direction I am most interested about, which requires healthy ecosystem and inclusive commons based collaboration.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116109998586728783

SX considers your applied research area to be exploring the Personal social networking paradigm, which in a more general sense also facilitate the notion of what it means to be "working in commons" on things that are "commons based".

Trust and safety are major concerns, I gather. I am not sure what is the status today, but the Open Hospitality Network at one point was investigating an ActivityPub based platform similar to CouchSurfing, where these aspects were also of key importance. @mariha hosts this community.

https://hospitality.network

[princeofdenmark@mas.to]

@urbanfoxe @smallcircles Yeah we’re definitely due for the Gnab Gib.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@unattributed I like that imagery, thank you. That aligns with the notion of a peopleverse/ Forming a road network that connects the offline and online worlds.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@dodosan exciting, in a good way then?

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@PrinceOfDenmark do the square quotes indicate we aren't there yet? A collective sounds to me like it is very tight-knit. Shouldn't it be plural?

[princeofdenmark@mas.to]

@smallcircles Quoting Monty Python. 😎

[unattributed@gotosocial.social]

@smallcircles Exactly, it's kind of like each person has their own topography of what the Fediverse looks like based on who they are interacting with, and the nodes of interests where they intersect.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@PrinceOfDenmark ha! Love that.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@unattributed

I call thinking about how people would experience such a network and taking their needs in account to be examples of Personal social networking in a new paradigm that differs to how we now think about social media (which is in a very technical sense characterized by "people are users").

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#personal-social-networking

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@unattributed

On that last bit..

"If as a developer you call your people users, you just lost the first battle of a great solution design."

-- Some dude on the fediverse 😅

[amans@piaille.fr]

@smallcircles 70% cozy village ! My... expérience is so different of obvious majorities ! Even here

[unattributed@gotosocial.social]

@smallcircles Well, there are a couple of potential negative connotations to the word user.  First, "user" was frequently used in the 90's for the customers that purchased some software products.

Then there is also the connotation of "drug" users.

Maybe the Fediverse is better thought of as groups of participants in communities that may or may not overlap.