Social Web: Our Way Or The Highway?
I titled this topic in a word-play on the US expression “My way or the highway” to indicate a choice that is in front of us:
Either the Commons steps up and keeps having a say in the future of Fediverse / Social Web.
Or commercial forces will lead us towards Big Fedi™. We go the way of the corporate web.
We are firmly on trajectory 2) as the Commons hasn’t been able to self-organize in any significant way. Our ecosystem is marked by fragmentation and individualism with only little collaboration and cross-pollination that leads to actual evolution of the technology foundations upon which we all stand.
Is that sad? Opinions vary, and there are those who think 2) is the best and only way forward. One thing is certain: Standing on the sidelines and that trajectory, a corporate takeover, is what we’ll get.
What happens in fedi’s future depends on our collective (in)action…
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/social-web-our-way-or-the-highway/4580
