Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Big Fedi, Small Fedi

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This post offers some definitions to help people describe what sort of fediverse they want. On reading it my response was a glib "I'm happy with small fedi but I'm fine with big fedi too." But my feelings are rather more nuanced than that. Hence I wrote this post. This particular take was also informed by the story of latest victim of investor profit-taking, Goodreads. It ultimately boils down to the question: can we have nice things on the internet? I think we can - but we have to get past the narrow set of options presented in this post. See also: Jon Udell: Critical Mass in the Goldilocks Zone.

Today: 1 Total: 1426 [Direct link] [Share]


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Apr 30, 2024 3:28 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes