shellsharks on Nostr: Seems like the hot thing to do in the #Fediverse / social space these days is stand ...
Seems like the hot thing to do in the #Fediverse / social space these days is stand up some pie-in-the-sky "foundation" with flowery language. In just the last like 2 months we've seen all these sprout up ⬇️
Social Web Foundation: https://socialwebfoundation.org
A New Social: https://www.anew.social
The people should own the town square: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
Free Our Feeds: https://freeourfeeds.com
They're all very keen on telling you who's behind the operation, and why "governance" is so important. Less so on providing substantive info on what they will actually do to help secure or otherwise make these platforms better. They've all anointed themselves fancy li'l titles, and put their cool headshots on some prominent page on the site. It all just screams, "look at me! I'm an important person!". I'm not saying all of these are bad, or that any of them are. I'm not saying none of them will be impactful or succeed in some way relative to their stated missions. I'm only pointing out that it's interesting how much "organizing" has been happening lately. Why now? Why not before?
Note: I do think Mastodon's move from Gargron owning everything makes a lot of sense. Y'know, to mitigate the chance that someone might mullenweg the whole operation. But I lumped that story in with these others merely because of the timing of everything.
It's an exciting time in the Fediverse, and in the larger world of social media to be sure. Time will tell if any of these foundations amount to much of anything beyond letting me know what these "founders" professional backgrounds are... 🤨
Social Web Foundation: https://socialwebfoundation.org
A New Social: https://www.anew.social
The people should own the town square: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
Free Our Feeds: https://freeourfeeds.com
They're all very keen on telling you who's behind the operation, and why "governance" is so important. Less so on providing substantive info on what they will actually do to help secure or otherwise make these platforms better. They've all anointed themselves fancy li'l titles, and put their cool headshots on some prominent page on the site. It all just screams, "look at me! I'm an important person!". I'm not saying all of these are bad, or that any of them are. I'm not saying none of them will be impactful or succeed in some way relative to their stated missions. I'm only pointing out that it's interesting how much "organizing" has been happening lately. Why now? Why not before?
Note: I do think Mastodon's move from Gargron owning everything makes a lot of sense. Y'know, to mitigate the chance that someone might mullenweg the whole operation. But I lumped that story in with these others merely because of the timing of everything.
It's an exciting time in the Fediverse, and in the larger world of social media to be sure. Time will tell if any of these foundations amount to much of anything beyond letting me know what these "founders" professional backgrounds are... 🤨