One of the questions from a listener was basically "so what can we do?"
It took the liberty to have some thoughts on this related to the #fediverse: ...
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One of the questions from a listener was basically "so what can we do?" It took the liberty to have some thoughts on this related to the #fediverse: ... 10 comments
Personally, while I don't believe there is a "root problem" -- they are impact each other -- in my view the most fundamental of all the related problems is information dissemination and curation, including fake news and informational manipulation. I cannot see how we can make any progress on anything if our information exchange channels are unreliable. And they are, today, and more so all the time: ... * The "objective" news media keeps losing ground in favor of ... I don't even know what to call that. ... ... ... (Don't laugh! If you don't believe that possibility, think of what future you believe in instead. I choose to be an optimist if a non-zero chance exists.) ... @J12t It absolutely does have that potential, which is the only reason I am here. But I am very troubled that except for some clients, the fedi has not broken out with developers as many assumed it would. Most activities still revolve around a few AP platforms. Remember all the blogging platforms we had popping up 10-20 years ago? And all those plugins, languages and libraries around them? I was hoping for that kind of explosive dynamism here. I worry about stagnation. @shoq I hear you. IMHO the market circumstances are not here yet where the fediverse can "break out". Most importantly: the fediverse does not know (yet) how to attract the about 100x in money it needs to have any chance at breaking out. Eg., money is needed to attract highly qualified people who know how to build and market products that can break out, and they can justify to their families why they work on this instead of something else. But: IMHO we'll figure it out in the next 12 months. |
The problem with any intertwingled set of problems / "wicked
problems" / the #polycrisis is that our usual approach to solving
problems -- analyzing scope and shape of the problem, dividing,
working down the list one item at a time -- doesn't really work. The
list is too long, too intertwingled, we don't understand enough how
one thing impacts all the others, and by the time we might if we
spent the time, the situation has changed too much to make the
analysis still useful....