Evan Prodromou
One of the terms we use when talking about the social web is "decentralisation".
I realised during the talks at #FediverseHouse is that social networking is already decentralised; our data, our connections, and our attention are spread across a dozen social platforms.
We need RE-centralisation; I want my social networking experience to be centred on *me*. Starting with an account on a platform I choose, and radiating out to friends, family, neighbors and colleagues, communities, topics.
Evan Prodromou
@ricmac dammit Richard you beautiful genius, that's perfect
Richard MacManus
@evan I think you should name this “me-centralisation” (kind of a pun on re-centralisation)
Evan Prodromou
@maj @ted so, that's good, but only rarely do the different parts of our lives actually line up with platform boundaries. Communities and identities cross those borders all the time. You should have control based on your needs, not Tumblr's.
Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins
@ted @evan Managing different "yous" is huge. I do not need my Tumblr me and LinkedIn me running into each other.
So centralized experience, distributed network, and fine-grain control.
Ted Gould
@evan I think that's really interesting, but I think it's also important to realize that people show many different sets of faces to the world. They have different sets of friend groups, and often those don't overlap.
So while focusing on you is good, you also should have control of "which you" they're looking at and dealing with.
Evan Prodromou
@malte an unconnected network is not a network!
malte
@evan This inspires me to take a perspective from Yvonne Agazarian. I think the correct word would be self-centeredness. And then, to not only take things personally (which is dysfunctional self-centeredness), we need a connection to our various memberships in communities (friends, neighbors, colleagues, topics). The life force comes from the body and is at the center (self), but development of that energy happens when we go out and take a membership in community with others.
Anuj Ahooja
@evan PEOPLE 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 PLATFORMS 👏🏼
Evan Prodromou
@quillmatiq Louder for the people in the back!
Evan Prodromou
@j12t nice!
Johannes Ernst
@evan I had a slide a million years ago (that Kaliya dug up recently, otherwise I would have forgotten) that contrasted 1) a big company/platform in the middle, with all its users around it connecting 1-N vs 2) me in the middle, with all the companies/platforms I interact with around it, connecting 1-N.
The original form of user centricity rather than company centricity.
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