The year is 2017 AD. The whole web is occupied by centralized services. Wellโฆ Not entirely. One small village of indomitable free software lovers still holds out against the invadersโฆ
I think it will be difficult to airbrush Marx out and still have a coherent criticism of Capitalism or an understanding of the history of socialist movements. Even if you disagree with Marx, his writing on Capitalism is kind of foundational in the same way that airbrushing Darwin would make it harder to understand nature.
So the federated wiki idea is nice, but the implementation is not so great. The authentication depends on proprietary systems like Twitter or Google, so I don't think this will be really suitable for !Freedombone unless some independent authentication system exists.
It's probably easier than I thought. Just select the wiki button at the bottom and then you can double click on any paragraph to edit. Pretty straightforward. I'm not sure I'm totally enamored by the multi-column display though.
@bthall Over-zealous application of rules in general can always become a problem (eg. Software Freedom Law Center Vs Conservancy). There isn't really any silver bullet solution other than creating and maintaining non-toxic communities takes effort.
I've added Ward Cunningham's federated wiki to !Freedombone. It seems quite non-intuitive and probably I'll need to rtfw to find out how it's supposed to work. Also I've removed a bunch of google crap from the dependencies, including things related to Google Plus (ugh). I wish that web developers wouldn't do this, but hopefully the mindshare (if not yet the money) is now receding from that monstrous megacorporation.
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 09:45:27 EST
Bob MottramCodes of conduct are always a toxic topic. On one side there are people who think they're essential and that every last possible abuse must be expressly forbidden in an authoritative document, and on the other side there are are people who think it's another pointless piece of bureaucracy which almost nobody will read and certainly nobody will act upon.
A code of conduct might be one part of making a good community, but merely having one isn't enough and it still requires additional work to avoid pitfalls. It's a bit like the universal declaration of human rights. It exists and a lot of countries signed up to it. But it seems to me that it's routinely ignored and all sorts of abuses continue in flagrant violation.