New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for?
On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/
@fediversereport @Mastodon
Boundaries are porous to be sure, but I suspect language differences create perceptibly distinct communities on Mastodon. Considering the Fediverse more broadly, language and application are probably important divisions.
Not really sure what this is saying. Stipulated that most people experience the Fedi as one big interconnected social network. That's what it is. And the fact that the prevailing attitude is a fair degree of hostility to AI, mirrors what most of the general population thinks about AI. The fact that an ungoverned and ungovernable network reflects the general consensus does not seem to be a problem that needs solving.
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I'm not sure if I agree with
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"It is the culture of the federation layer, formed through years of shared follows, shared boosts, shared blocks and shared arguments about what is acceptable, and it governs even though no institution maintains it."
whether is likely true that most of #fediverse users, today, has neuter or bad opinion about AI or whatever other controversial topic, nobody has the exact same "federation layer experience" as someone else.
Each one of us follow determined people, or topic, and silence or block other and that means that my federated timeline is different than yours.
If I'm seriously uninterested into something , say a bubble, or a continental popular music contest, or a sport, or whatever
I won't search for it, I won't comment it, I would eventually silence the topic, if it gets too noisy
I'm not going to tell all people worldwide not to talk about it.
I follow the creator of a particular good software because I think is relevant to hear what he thinks about software, that does not mean I agree on all his opinions about anything
Social coding commons follows for Social experience design (SX) the notion of a concept called “Personal social networking”. Which entails adopting a SX perspective for designing social web solutions. The approach first considers the so-called sociosphere, i.e. the purely social reality one experiences both offline and online, and then reasons from there to the desired social dynamics to project onto the technology layers, i.e. to the technosphere.
Deliberately making these perspective and mindset shifts between socio and technosphere helps see the social network requirements from different angle. Especially when comparing to familiar social context and real-world situations offline, when doing our day to day routines, often helps see how the online abstractions to support them may be further improved.