 I'm working on something really interesting. The "social web" -- a concept that has been around for decades but has fallen out of use and is atrophied because all we have are quasi-"social apps" Which Are Not That! -- it needs and wants a new breath of air. If we re-imagined a truly social web with what we know today, what would it look like? It's fascinating and so exciting!! Not sure when or whether I have something to share any time soon, but ... writing about it gets me all fired up!! 3 comments
@jamesmarshall I happen to agree. ActivityPub could be used for that. Bluesky and others: not so much. It genuinely puzzles me how the “more free speech” people always seem to want to make everything mandatorily public.  @J12t social implies shared activities and engagement but also artifacts to discover later (to remind us our past interactions and to stay passively aware of others in our various overlapping and intersecting circles - so we might re-engage with them in the future. So how this might look: - supporting adhoc and regularly scheduled shared experiences (think monsterdon or bikenite but more often yet also not always “in public” - encourage shared and individual cocreation (wikis as one example |
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@J12t one thought: Genuinely free speech requires the option to be private. If you're being surveilled, your speech isn't really free. Thus, I think a social web needs better privacy options than what we have now, such as e2ee posting to a limited set of people, e.g. to one's friends.