Today's @spritely "technical values" thread touches on a topic very important to me personally: "Networks of consent"! https://social.coop/@spritely/113703378145858473
Indeed, you could say this is the most important value to me.
And if the framing sounds familiar, you may recognize you've heard it before in my writeup about where I think the fediverse should go: "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent"! https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org
@outfrost @spritely We know what the tech is going to be. We have a roadmap, and the roadmap is what we're getting onto the website next. You can see an older version on the older website https://spritelyproject.org/
If you read the document I sent before, it's very specific about what the tech is to meet said needs. If you want another doc about motivation, read OCapPub: https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org
I'm going to get back to my thread in a bit but I think, despite how critical I have been about the way contemporary fediverse moderation approaches work as being insufficient (see OCapPub https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org ) oh my GOD is it doing a much better job than the moderation tools on Bluesky right now
That and you can't just openly query who's blocking who in an instant as a harassment vector
@oborosaur @Gaelan I'm still proud of the "We must not claim we can prevent what we can not" section of OCapPub https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org
at some point maybe it would be worth doing a fediverse thread breakdown of the ideas in ocappub https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org and how the work has continued over at @spritelyinst because everything I wrote in 2019 is now super, incredibly relevant
(I am anticipating a crash/collapse of the fediverse in its current form at a not too distant future; hopefully we'll have more answers ready by then, but this is a multi-year project)
“What if we’re making the wrong assumptions about our social networks? What if we’re focusing on breadth, when we really should be focusing on depth?” (@evan, paraphrased)
Something that has me transfixed with the #fedi right now is that I don't think I've even seen such deep debate of the social and ethical implications of software anywhere in social media before. Not at this pace, anyway. Any technical "feature" has moral implications, every political decision is looking for a technical implementation. And the ground keeps shifting under our feet.
Here's @cwebber on #OcapPub: "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent"
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