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I've changed views a lot. I absolutely intend to spend a significant fraction of my life working on interoperability & interoperation, in trying to find & captu
by rektide 4y ago
I've changed views a lot. I absolutely intend to spend a significant fraction of my life working on interoperability & interoperation, in trying to find & capture the essences that are the same. I identify a lot with the value system you're presenting. I'd felt a bit morose originally that BlueSky/@ had made their own fresh take.
What's charged is my mindset. I'm no longer coming with such a view of scarcity. Of insisting we work together.
You know who gets everyone in a big meeting room & then decides what to do & builds that architecture out? Corporations. In contrast, I think the organic growth model is a huge win here. We can cover more ground, better assay where the rich & nutritious veins are, better explore the many ecosystems of possibilities with an organic model.
It's all still so early, we're so young. ActivityPub, Nostr, BlueSky/@.... they barely have antecedents and none are proven. We are in free-form mode, none of us know what to do yet. You mention RSS, but that's a read-only medium. That attempts to explore the bounds of that didn't get that far: Google Buzz, the Salmon Protocol. OpenSocial. They weren't necessarily bad techs but we never really figured it out, democratized it, pulled it off.
We have multiple different explorers now, and I like it. The ability to keep making useful growth, is, I think, what counts here. ActivityPub has shown some decent flexibility in going across-mediums, but we don't have a ton of extensions, a ton of new modes for it (I think Akkoma, an Elixer-based fork of Pleroma is the most boundary-pushing, and reaction-emoji is their main defining claim to fame). BlueSky is brand new and we have no idea how far it'll go, but it also has a lot of really neat compelling web-oriented ideas in it's core, of signed DIDs that let it be web without having to rely on http:// http:// and dns:// and give us self-sovereignty. Nostr I think is incredibly fantastically compelling, for it's hackability, and what a huge roster of incredibly smart & sharp "Nostr Implementation Possibilities," (https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips). What a beautiful phrase that captures so much essence of where we are: finding possibilities.
Right now, we need to emerge a shit ton of complexity. We need really wild off the wall stuff. We need lots of ideas & possibilities. We need growth & exploring bounds. Once we have some actual experience building these things & running them as smaller scale individual/microcollective operators & peers, I think then we can focus a lot more on narrowing down & coming together & deciding where and how to meet.