Challenge: Fixing the Fediverse Technology Adoption Lifecycle

discuss.coding.social Challenge: Fixing the Fediverse Technology Adoption Lifecycle

Background These are just some notes related to my observation that: On Fediverse Ad-hoc Interoperability dominates and hampers innovation. Need to clarify some terminology that I frequently use relating to Social Coding #Foundations … “Any decentralized [ecosystem] requires a centralized subst...

On the new Discuss Social Coding (that has not officially launched yet) I posted some notes on a particular challenge the fedi imho faces, that hampers adoption and poses growing risks in the future if not dealt with appropriately.

The notes leave a lot of things I've been looking deeper into unmentioned, but you may find them interesting nonetheless.

Fedivangelism @lemmy.ml

Challenge: Fixing the Fediverse Technology Adoption Lifecycle

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My criticism on Fediverse as a whole is that the technology is currently visionless.
Completely disagree. There are many of us who have been working on this for a decade plus who share a solid vision. We just don't have capital. I think you mean to say the software that becomes popular is for some reason the most visionless of all the software being worked on. Perhaps figure out why that is first... (Lacking capital is the pretty obvious answer IMHO)
- There's fantastic work done by many fantastic people. And with tremendous effort open standards have been created. Tons of work on a whole bunch of apps. Sure, there could be more capital, that would certainly 'oil the gears' and speed up evolution. But funding is a general problem with free software. I am curious for your description of the vision.
  
  I'd argue that the necessary open standards have existed for quite a long time, RDF and SPARQL among the oft-forgotten.
  As for a description of the vision it would take me quite some time to put it all together. I don't have time because I'm impoverished. My main areas of interest have been small businesses, interaction with their customers, and healthcare, the interaction between doctors and patients and caregivers and guardians (including human guardians of nonhumans for veterinary care). These became my priority simply for humanist pragmatic reasons. If we didn't live in such a dystopia perhaps my focus would be on creative collaboration, the interaction between creatives and fans, and scientific exploration, including of course crowd sourcing and amateur science.
  But in all my research I'm aware of many other use cases.
  Which would you like to hear about first?

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