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From Splinterverse to resilient GrassrootsFedi dev community: The time is now! (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/952618

Fediverse is going mainstream fast. And it is going to be a corporate hellhole if the grassroots initiatives that drove it to its current success are losing their grip on evolution in proper direction: Humane tech that is to the benefit of the people andd society, free culture thriving.

While corporate threads are looming, meanwhile the activated developer community is once again splintering, fragmenting initiatives appearing that dilute attention to focus on common efforts, cohesion, cross-pollination and collaboration. The "herding cats" problem of grassroots movements.

Great opportunity is now. Cohesion means that initiatives remain independent, but take care to coordinate with what is going on elsewhere.

๐Ÿ‘‰ You can help! Avoid a CorporaVerse where you are exploited and milked. Bring attention to the opportunity and participate in the related initiatives to help bring them closer together. You might also boost my related toot.

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From Splinterverse to resilient GrassrootsFedi dev community: The time is now! (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
 

Fediverse is going mainstream fast. And it is going to be a corporate hellhole if the grassroots initiatives that drove it to its current success are losing their grip on evolution in proper direction: Humane tech that is to the benefit of the people andd society, free culture thriving.

While corporate threads are looming, meanwhile the activated developer community is once again splintering, fragmenting initiatives appearing that dilute attention to focus on common efforts, cohesion, cross-pollination and collaboration. The "herding cats" problem of grassroots movements.

Great opportunity is now. Cohesion means that initiatives remain independent, but take care to coordinate with what is going on elsewhere.

๐Ÿ‘‰ You can help! Avoid a CorporaVerse where you are exploited and milked. Bring attention to the opportunity and participate in the related initiatives to help bring them closer together. You might also boost my related toot.

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Supporting Fediverse developer communities (dev.to)
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Supporting Fediverse developer communities (dev.to)
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What's The Key Quality of The Grassroots Fediverse? (social.coop)
Please promote your SocialHub. It is important! in c/fediversefutures@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] humanetech@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

SocialHub has an association with the W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG). The SWICG is a continuation of the Working Group that standardized ActivityPub as a W3C Recommendation. So technically this organization exists.

In practice it is really hard to organize in an all-volunteer grassroots movement, and many people for various reasons don't like to participate in such organization. "Herding cats" is a term that is used. Being grassroots has pros (resilience) and cons (stalled evolution). Personally I have come to think that decentralized development of the Fediverse probably works best when it is split into different domains (e.g. Microblogging, Podcasting, etc.) as long as there's also a community working on the core common denominator in the protocol. That is currently the SocialHub and Fediverse Enhancement Proposal process.

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Please promote your SocialHub. It is important! (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
 

With Fediverse going mainstream and corporate interests aplenty, it is very important to promote SocialHub and the FEP process, so that there's higher chance of keeping the fedi open and accessible to anyone. Anyone can help in this regard.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/

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Priorities to Make the Fediverse Sustainable (techpolicy.press)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by humanetech@lemmy.ml to c/fediversefutures@lemmy.ml
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Very interesting article tooted by author Alek Tarkowski

Building an open share button for the distributed social web in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Contribute to Fediverse curated lists of the Delightful Club (delightful.club)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/639707

The Fediverse going mainstream is ablaze with new developer activities. Many new projects are starting. I am co-maintaining 3 lists, part of the delightful project (this is similar to Github Awesome lists, but only for FOSS, Open Data and Open Science, and without sponsored ads) and can need your help to keep the lists up-to-date.

Find a new project or an entry that needs updating? Please PR to one of the following repositories:

The apps and ActivityPub resources from these lists will be hand-picked for inclusion in Fediverse Party website. And the lists are auto-compiled into the Delightful Club website.

If you want to become part of the Delightful Club and maintain a sub-list on a subject of your choice, then file an issue to the top-level ist.

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Contribute to Fediverse curated lists of the Delightful Club (delightful.club)
 

The Fediverse going mainstream is ablaze with new developer activities. Many new projects are starting. I am co-maintaining 3 lists, part of the delightful project (this is similar to Github Awesome lists, but only for FOSS, Open Data and Open Science, and without sponsored ads) and can need your help to keep the lists up-to-date.

Find a new project or an entry that needs updating? Please PR to one of the following repositories:

The apps and ActivityPub resources from these lists will be hand-picked for inclusion in Fediverse Party website. And the lists are auto-compiled into the Delightful Club website.

If you want to become part of the Delightful Club and maintain a sub-list on a subject of your choice, then file an issue to the top-level ist.

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โš  Call to Action: Start Campaigning to #AvoidEternalSeptember (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by humanetech@lemmy.ml to c/activitypub@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/588553

Eternal September is when influx from some other (often shittier and collapsing) platform overwhelms the unique culture that existed before, and in time fully replaces it. Destroying what existed before.

๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿ’ญ Figure out strategies & actions in comments below .. participate!

For example, I introduced 2 hashtags for awareness:

  • #AvoidEternalSeptember Raise attention to the culture clash.
  • #DonateToFediInstances Help admins and moderators withstand the influx and give them your support.

We want to be gentle, welcoming to newcomers. Show them around. But also keep having the nice chattering and culture we had before, and maybe give those some extra boosts to exemplify and spread the vibes.

Here's a poll to make newcomers aware that taking Twitter culture with you on the Fediverse is just weird.

Fedizens... Be strategical in how you toot to help avoid that from happening

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Open Letter to Gitea (gitea-open-letter.coding.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/568420

In reaction to the surprise announcement of the creation of Gitea Ltd and the transfer of domains and trademark to this company, worried members of the Community have written an Open Letter to the elected Owners of the project.

The request is to return the assets and manage them by a community-led non-profit organization and furthermore improve the community organization, so that the Trust and Health of the project is restored.

The Open Letter can be signed by sending a PR to the Codeberg repository.

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Open Letter to Gitea (gitea-open-letter.coding.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/568420

In reaction to the surprise announcement of the creation of Gitea Ltd and the transfer of domains and trademark to this company, worried members of the Community have written an Open Letter to the elected Owners of the project.

The request is to return the assets and manage them by a community-led non-profit organization and furthermore improve the community organization, so that the Trust and Health of the project is restored.

The Open Letter can be signed by sending a PR to the Codeberg repository.

I'm working on another volunteer project and would be very grateful for anyone here to contribute their artistic skills. in c/creative@beehaw.org
[โ€“] humanetech@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Thank you. Well, not so much on this topic speciically. I would advise to create a bit more elaborate call-for-help with some more background info, cross-post it to other relevant Lemmy communities, boost it on the Fediverse. And likely good to create a separate fedi (pleroma/mastodon/ etc.) toot with a bunch of hashtags in it and a link to the Lemmy post. Hashtags like: #art #artwork #graphics #design #UX

Fediverse platform for movies! in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] humanetech@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Yes, true. I asked the question in a more general sense on the fedi: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech/107540889998564900

Fediverse platform for movies! in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] humanetech@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

The question is whether the project should be forked into multiple separate projects at all. An alternative would be to have a generic "Directory Platform" and have modules to make it a Book Review platform, a Movie Database, or whatever-you-wanna-collect platform with another module. The modules would mostly be templates and data structures + user interface widgets to present them nicely.

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