Mike Macgirvin (dev) on Nostr: "us - connected". No lords, no masters. Everything has access control with the owner ...
"us - connected".
No lords, no masters. Everything has access control with the owner deciding the audience and setting their own boundaries. Nobody else. Identity is nomadic and automatic and resistant to government intervention and website operator intervention and hardware failure. There are no website boundaries. These are all linked through single sign-on so that my chosen audience has "magical" access to everything I allow them at their site or mine. People and their conversations and dreams and aspirations flow freely around the web. Spam and harrassment were left behind in the 90s when we created our personal boundaries and communication boundaries - and these are enforced by our software and hardware.
Notice the emphasis on boundaries. In short, all the artificial boundaries created by being on different "servers" or different cultures or beliefs are removed, and what remains are our personal boundaries. And these are absolute. These can be based on culture or belief - as long as they represent your culture and belief and not something imposed on you by strangers.
I implemented this vision over a decade ago and have attempted to port it to a number of different fediverses. Most recently to the ActivityPub fediverse. Admittedly it was always a diamond in the rough, but a diamond in the rough is far removed from the lump of coal that many of the ex-Twitter heads seem to think it is. Now I'm just maintaining it in my old age and defending it against the Twitters and Threads and Mastodons of the world so when people are ready to "really" connect, a working model that they can explore and build out will be there waiting for them to discover.
No lords, no masters. Everything has access control with the owner deciding the audience and setting their own boundaries. Nobody else. Identity is nomadic and automatic and resistant to government intervention and website operator intervention and hardware failure. There are no website boundaries. These are all linked through single sign-on so that my chosen audience has "magical" access to everything I allow them at their site or mine. People and their conversations and dreams and aspirations flow freely around the web. Spam and harrassment were left behind in the 90s when we created our personal boundaries and communication boundaries - and these are enforced by our software and hardware.
Notice the emphasis on boundaries. In short, all the artificial boundaries created by being on different "servers" or different cultures or beliefs are removed, and what remains are our personal boundaries. And these are absolute. These can be based on culture or belief - as long as they represent your culture and belief and not something imposed on you by strangers.
I implemented this vision over a decade ago and have attempted to port it to a number of different fediverses. Most recently to the ActivityPub fediverse. Admittedly it was always a diamond in the rough, but a diamond in the rough is far removed from the lump of coal that many of the ex-Twitter heads seem to think it is. Now I'm just maintaining it in my old age and defending it against the Twitters and Threads and Mastodons of the world so when people are ready to "really" connect, a working model that they can explore and build out will be there waiting for them to discover.