Not long ago we had a long thread about fragmentation of SocialHub discussions due to the forum being federated. My own observation was that “becoming part of the fediverse” was a mixed bag. On one hand we finally removed the member sign-up barrier, so that any fedizen can participate from their own fediverse account. On the other hand the “sense of community” deteriorated and AP-related developer discussions become more dispersed in fragmented fleety microblogging channels than they probably were before, without building an archive and knowledgebase of these discussions.
This morning I happened to notice one such interesting discussion where @jdp23 tried to bring the discussion into SocialHub’s context by adding mention of the appropriate AP actor for the Fediversity category. It did not have the desired effect, and rather served to cause a load spike that may have dragged the forum down (a known issue, cc @angus).
Technosphere vs. sociosphere
On the Social coding commons forum I noted down more thoughts on this subject..
The original fediverse discussion was about bridging vs. cross-posting, and this post and others I’ll make soon, may be considered cross-referencing of ‘linked data’ .. between connected small communities? creating archipelago’s forming Spiral islands in rough seas? 