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@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

@samvarma @_elena

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

@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?

@octarine_wiggle I like that description, thanks.

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

@maikel thank youl. I am fascinated by this intersection between social and technical, and the ability to collaborate at scale in grassroots environments to make that be more seamless.

@androcat aha, do you mean you find it hard to get information and connections around your interest areas?

@maikel that is a great list of points. I won't boost, or you get more of what you don't want, but you might consider filing a fediverse idea..

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues

Some of these can be mitigated by nurturing cultural habits.

> 6. The worst one: people use other names instead to call them so filters don't work.

This one in particular. Besides references to toxic people you see it too with folks saying Gaggle, GMAFIA, Farcebook, etc.

Often these names are used in someone's "activism package", but using them is imho more performative to an existing in-group than that they constructively appeal to others and persuade them to join the good cause.

I posted something related to this today. See CALM culture in..

The acronym also litterally means that our social media culture becomes calmer, and there's better separation to where there's activism, and where the natural talk of the town.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116158937812802335

@maikel certainly not an utopia. In a chain of links weaving a social fabric 😃 I will pass on this post quote..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116159153490621069

> My feed is very carefully curated, and yet it still filters in.

Yes, the tools we have can be much improved to offer more support for Personal social networking.

@Iloo travelers on an adventure together shuttling back and forth. I like your description.

@maikel I think you can't blame them with US being a global superpower and all, and how the world order is radically changed by all this. Difficult times, and it seeps very broadly in all timelines. I think in other social media it will be no different.

If you'd curate your feed to only include people who deliberately shun the political debate, might bring good improvement I think.

@seufz @RolloTreadway

Nice. They certainly nailed the atmosphere. Listening now.

@scottrochester that made me laugh. Thanks. 😃

@brad yes, I agree. In particular the natural and organic aspect. Revolution by evolution. Thank you.

@_elena I totally agree with you.

Though I perceive existential threats that I have been posting heavily about the last 2 weeks. These exist for many years and are well-known, but are getting pretty urgent now. They hold risks we have not dealt with properly. Allow me to cross-ref to what I just posted in reply to @neil ..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116159137251812698

The current fediverse is a marvel. What will the future fediverse be? That is the question.

@neil @fwtl

Don't get me wrong. I am one of those people too. My social experience is a cozy village, and I love to be on the microblogs, roam the timelines.

But there is also an ugly underbelly to our onlline cultures that is not properly acknowledged and discussed, let alone deep reflection on how to bring improvements. The fediverse is first of all a technosphere. Tech is created, rolled out, and culture must adapt accordingly. Externalities and unwanted side-effects are to be dealt with later, which is not easy in an app-centric fediverse where individual devs are in the lead of making feature decisions.

As an aside see this toot: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116109447243110037

Just below the warm and fluffy surface of the cozy fedi culture there are parasocial tendencies and behavioral anti-patterns that make fedi a de-facto unsafe environment. If you don't know the mine fields and eggshells to walk on in certain areas, you may face harsh unexpected consequences, fedidrama.

We can do much better.

@fwtl

Note btw, that for the most part algorithms are not causing the issue of bad integrations between apps. These are due to the pragmatic nature in which our current app-centric fediverse evolves, i.e. by means of post-facto interoperability. Here app developers focus on getting app features on the wire, and whomever first succeeds in making their new custom protocol extension to become popular, becomes the de-facto standard for that feature. And everyone else should "follow the leader" or push themselves out of mainstream fediverse adoption, into their own app niche.

This is not a sustainable path, and I am among years-long advocates that we should do better in how we collectively evolve the fedi, so that it can truly become the social networking of the future. See also my posts from last week, like:

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116109447243110037

#SX #SocialCoding #ActivityPub

@fwtl thank you!

@RolloTreadway ah, nice. I did not know that song, ha ha.

@fwtl

What is mass appeal though? In our little analogy we might call it Urbanization. And to the extent that that applies, it does not have only positve effects, on the contrary.

Algorithms are railways and highways, and while they may bring what we call 'modern life', there's a cost to that. Urban life, the rat race, not knowing your neighbor, pursuit of vain things and status, following the latest trend just to feel you still belong, are a player.

Algorithmic support to our new and diferent social networking landscape will come, but it may be good if that happens by slow growth and gradual evolution, so the culture can catch up and not deteriorate rapidly by inrush of city dwellers all over the country side and littering it beauty with trash, so to speak.