Fascinating concepts in the Fediverse
The ongoing drama concerning Ryan Barrett’s upcoming tool that will bridge parts of the social networks Mastodon and Bluesky led me to a rabbit hole. A reading dive into the norms and expectations that factions of people and communities have within the decentralized social Web, which currently mostly exists only via Mastodon. Some of these behavioral traits and goals can be encapsulated into fascinating concepts—or rather the behaviors emerge from these philosophies—and each has far reaching consequences. Here are some of these concepts:
- Big Fedi and Small Fedi, by Evan Prodromou
- A Round Robin of sign-up servers to prevent too much centralization
- Nodes versus Networked Communities, by L. Rhodes
- Fedipact, to preemptively block Meta’s Threads from federating
- Paradox of tolerance
- Moderate people, not code, by Ryan Barrett