For people to feel safe to participate, getting a functioning and diverse moderation / well-being team in place is an absolute priority. @angus I really see this as a top priority.
Great question.
Not sure what Evan had in mind I think there are a few different aspects to this. To start with I think there’s fairly broad agreement on in principle (although not always in practice):
- “everybody” includes disabled people (which is why Improving accessibility in the Fediverse is so important!), Black people, Indigenous people, women, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, sex workers, and others who are generally marginalized in society and within the ActivityPub ecosystem.
- “everybody” doesn’t include harassers, stalkers, white supremacists, terfs and other anti-2SLGBTQIA+ bigots, eugenicists, fascists, etc
Then there are a few open questions, where I don’t think there are any right or wrong answers, it’s really what the people taking SocialHub forward decide they want to focus on (ensuring it’s aligned with Hellekin’s vision)
- Does “everyone” only include developers? If it’s broader, are non-developers an equal priority or is it developer-centric?
- Should it be focused primarily or exclusively on ActivityPub, or is it a broader focus that includes other decentralized protocols (and if so which) and/or other aspects of the Fediverse beyond the protocol?
- Does “everyone” include Meta? Other surveillance-capitalism companies?
A few other questions on the table:
- Is SocialHub a community or a discussion space?
- If it’s an aggregator of discussions elsewhere, what discussions get pulled in – and given the current state of the technology, how does that happen? The Are we decentralized yet? thread is delving into some of the complexities there.
- What domain to host it at?
On the domain, if the goal continues to be to provide a grassroots complement to SWICG, then I think it has to move off a SWICG-provided domain. .eu implies a Europe-centric focus which is an interesting complement to activitypub.space’s Canada-centricity, so presumably that’s okay. activitypub in the domain implies a protocol focus which has both upsides and downsides depending on answers to other questions.