One of my speculative critiques of the fediverse is that, technologically, it isn’t terribly relevant any more, or at least as much as it was just a year or two ago, because it doesn’t seem designed to cope with this new threat to the internet and media landscape. Rather, it’s designed to counter big corporate social media and the attendant lack of privacy, circa 2012.
Naively, to me, closing things down from public accessibility, encrypting and creating + enforcing chains of trust, seem to be the sort of things we might need to think about to create good human spaces against the pestilence of the modern internet. My naive impression is that to add that to ActivityPub would probably require just starting again.
One of my speculative critiques of the fediverse is that, technologically, it isn’t terribly relevant any more, or at least as much as it was just a year or two ago, because it doesn’t seem designed to cope with this new threat to the internet and media landscape. Rather, it’s designed to counter big corporate social media and the attendant lack of privacy, circa 2012.
Naively, to me, closing things down from public accessibility, encrypting and creating + enforcing chains of trust, seem to be the sort of things we might need to think about to create good human spaces against the pestilence of the modern internet. My naive impression is that to add that to ActivityPub would probably require just starting again.