 Friend Camp has about 50 active users and I just noticed we have more than half a million posts here since August 2018! I mean that's 11 a day per person on average but still. That seems wild to me. Last I checked something like 75% of our posts are unfederated. That's still 125 thousand posts sent to the fediverse. I think local-only posting increases the vitality of community, increasing the volume of overall activity, and contributing more to the fediverse than a less vital instance would. 28 comments
 @humanetech @hamishcampbell This is all very much of interest to me. Are you aware of my "neighborhoods" work? (It's not a formal proposal because I'd rather build it first, see how it works in practice, and then make a proposal)  @humanetech @darius @hamishcampbell though it's not the usual-for-Mastodon "instance = community". In the end, I want to blur the lines between instances as much as technically possible.  @grishka pity I couldn't join SocialCG.. spent 2 hrs before in EC webinar prep call, which I expected would be 0,5hr. But I'm reading the meeting notes 😃 @grishka @humanetech @darius The is a good discussern to be had about tech around - the whole, groups and the individual. power/community/sovereignty etc. A great article that is related to this is now on frontpage of HN: https://www.projecthorseshoe.com/reports/featured/ph18r8.htm It's in context of game design, but the social relationships explained are interesting well beyond that. @humanetech @hamishcampbell @grishka ahhh coauthored by my old colleague Erin! This is bound to be good, she's very smart  @humanetech @darius @grishka @hamishcampbell @redchrision “so when you as an admin were peering with another instance you are showing your set of values, and if that other instance believes that they are sharing those values, that instance can peer with you” and redaktor would like to do this as well. Had a meeting with Cristina too cause for redaktor would like to work on a trust pattern everybody can use. @darius @humanetech @grishka @hamishcampbell @redchrision yes. And I would like the idea of having an interoperable set of human values and principles so that it would also work e.g. Hometown <-> redaktor – Some ideas for redaktor regarding limiting power and establishing trust (it's a mess) :
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@jalcine my patreon is where I occasionally post ideas like.... every three months tops. Don't feel obligated, you'll get the good updates just following what I release!  @celia @darius oh yeah, you're right! I thought it could be the hometown docs too, but I don't see it there https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown  @darius This sounds similar to what Scuttlebutt is doing, no? Neighborhood and "pubs" rings a bell.  Interesting. I've never really taken this whole "instance is a community" thing seriously myself 🤔 |
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In other words: if Friend Camp never had local only posting, we would not have cohered as a community, and we would have contributed far less to the fediverse as a whole than we do with the ability to post unfederated.