I wonder if you can divide networks up into the kind of engagement they like. Following/consuming, vs posting/creating. IG feels like i'm just swimming in random content, which I can understand for some people. But not for me...
6gain (6gain@loadaverage.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2019 08:06:08 EDT
6gain"In order to face a failure likely to happen in the near future, we should see once again the seascapes that the ancients saw to revert us to our innocent minds. So my work hopefully gives us an opportunity to think before destroying ourselves."
I'm amazed how usable it all is, now I've returned after a few years away. Although I _was_ running Slackware before, to be fair. But now - now there are grumbles, but no more or less than I have with any other OS.
Maybe the real challenge is for humans to learn to consciously unscale - ie to shift and stick to small networks, and continually refactor their social links.
I wrote a thing about why I believe the best and most useful decentralized applications are going to be the ones that utilize multiple protocols. I imagine a world where ActivityPub, Dat, and Secure ScuttleButt are all seen as tools in a toolbox rather than as ecosystems, and what kind of amazing software we could build with them outside of the central/corporate paradigm.