Done with the slides for my talk "From Millions to Billions -- a plausible narrative for growing the Open Social Web", to be (first?) given at #FediCon this Friday in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I expect this to be permanent work in progress, as this community / network / market / whatever it all is evolves, and I'm sure that some people will tell me it is not plausible or could be more plausible. Which would be the best outcome ... I love learning from my "audience" because it gets better that way.

Quite interesting conversation between @npub17lrp...294v and Jack Dorsey on the history of Twitter, why Jack left Bluesky, and what he thinks is needed in terms of a social media protocol and why. Agree or disagree, this first recorded episode in Rabble's new podcast revolution.social is worth listening to.

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Seems to me these guys have no concept whatsoever of what science is.

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"I'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it's vibe physics."

Great piece on how we think about growth of Mastodon, Bluesky etc. and why it's (mostly) not working. By @npub1zlhg...de9x

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Growth narratives on the new social networks

The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in t...

Tim O’Reilly: “AI has adopted colonialism as its business model”. Strong words! But he explains: “Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back.” Guilty as charged I would say.

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If we wanted to grow the Open Social Web by a factor of 1000 -- roughly the number of users on Meta platforms today compared to, say, Mastodon -- how would we go about it? P.S. Obviously while keeping the good things we have here, and making them even better, rather than backsliding / enshittifying / ...

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), you obviously have gotten a lot of praise for your Fediverse video, and deservedly so. Many people commented on the sheer production quality. I want to add that your narrative is also first-class. I cannot think of anybody who has told the Fediverse story better than you have, and usually the stories being told are much worse. How did you come up with it? That's also your work, right?

One of the big conceptual questions that's unresolved in the #Fediverse is: Just what exactly is an instance for? Yep, it's a separate installation of server software. But what exactly does instance 1 give me compared to instance 2? Answer A: it makes no difference except on policy: who runs it, what are their TOS, moderation policy etc. The Local feed has no significance. Answer B: Beyond that, it defines a community. The local feed is essential. Which should it be?

Fascinated by @npub17m8z...rsw8's renaming of the "Fediverse Report" to "Connected Places". He could have called it "Global Townsquare" but he didn't. I very much agree. This is all about connecting distinct places on the web, not mashing them all up into one.

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We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond. Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies. This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @npub1vag7...mjkp 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1. Fortunately @npub17gq5...8hhz is starting to assemble people to solve this.