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   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:39:53 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   Thanks to everyone who replied.

   I think this is an important topic, because the different definitions result in different policy decisions.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:41:45 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     If you think of the Fediverse as a culture, or a group of people, then questions about who can join are really important. Who has access to our time and attention? Who do we want to hang out with, and have among us?

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:45:01 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     If you think of the Fediverse as a set of principles -- decentralization, open standards, open source, anti-capitalism -- then questions about who can participate depends on if they accept and represent most, or all, of those principles.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:45:39 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     If you think of the Fediverse as an open, permissionless network, then a lot of the shibboleths go away. Anyone can join the network -- and anyone else can choose whether or not to communicate with them.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:47:34 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     I use "Fediverse" for both a network and a culture. I also use "ActivityPub network" or "Open social web" for the network itself. I think it's very important to make the network as open, permissionless, and connected as possible. Everyone on the planet has a right to be on that network.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:48:59 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     I understand people's concerns with protecting the culture, and I'm fine with people using the tools at hand to protect it -- like blocklists and defederation. If you think some software or some community is bad for the culture, you should use the tools available to protect it.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:51:35 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     I don't like the tendency of some people to brigade projects or people they think are a threat to the culture. It's an ugly process. I was disappointed to see some of the replies to the #SiliconBeest post on Reddit, here:

     https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/comments/1v2mt69/i_built_a_full_fediverse_service_that_runs_100_on/

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 00:53:13 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     My work at #SWF and W3C is about making this network open to everyone, and encouraging implementers. I'm going to continue doing this.

     Anyway, my answer: network.

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     Peter Nelson (petererer@fuzzle.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 01:26:14 JST Peter Nelson

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     @evan@cosocial.ca Well, it is full of copilot and claude slop though...
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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 05:10:20 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     If you think this is an invitation to share your dumbshits opinion about SiliconBeest, you are mistaken.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 06:13:40 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @jonathan which principles?

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     Podcast Host Kaito (jonathan@charade.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 06:13:41 JST Podcast Host Kaito

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     @evan Principals is my reaction, and I'm surprised to see how unpopular it is.
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     M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 07:23:48 JST M. Grégoire

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     @evan Strongly agree. Even for communities I don't like and would prefer to avoid, it would be better if they used ActivityPub rather than a proprietary system.