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@silverpill @phnt @jupiter_rowland @rimu @elle

It is mostly a social challenge, not a technological one. We had a technology standard, ActivityPub, developers built apps with that, and the fediverse-we-have formed by emergence.

It might have been beneficial if there was a technology vision based on what ActivityPub is capable of, and project 5 to 10 years from now on where we could be.

Even better would be a socio-technical imagining of the future of social networking and how it might serve and benefit people.

As guiding lights for the development of the grassroots ecosystem. As a means for people to put their noses in the same direction, and cocreate that future together. As a means to establish grassroots chaordic organization that enables us to get there.

That can all still be done, although I doubt if the fediverse as a whole can still be course-corrected. More likely are either continue as-is or forks in the road ahead. Or new technology that ultimately takes over the field.