The purpose of the Fediversity category

My understanding of the Fediversity category, based on the discussions that led to its creation, is that it’s a discussion space for people working on references sites about the fediverse (guides and manuals, news, instance mapping, software research etc). The idea was to create opportunities for cross-project coordination, in a similar way to what other categories provide for implementers working on fediverse software and protocols.

EDIT: See the pinned topic by the original category host @tao.

A new topic was recently added to Fediversity called Multi-agent Systems and ActivityPub, which is about quite technical protocol-level stuff relevant to implementers. I suggested moving it to the ActivityPub category, but @how replied;

This suggests a very different understanding of what the Fediversity category is for. Perhaps based on ways it has been used during my absence (late 2020-late 2022), rather than the initial vision?

If Fediversity has an established and useful purpose other than what I laid out above, then perhaps we need a new category for the original purpose. Alternatively, perhaps topics about software that aren’t developed enough for the ActivityPub category could go into the top-level Software category. I’m happy to proceed either way, what do @how and others think?

The category had a use for “anything that happens in the fediverse” with a focus on being interesting to the SocialHub developer community.

Yes, Fediversity is here to encourage non-programmers to participate with e.g., social sciences.