I like the idea, but it makes modding a lot more work. I don't think it's feasible for every community to host an instance.
I'm intrigued by the idea of nomadic communities jumping from platform to platform. Maybe that will become necessary. Each instance might be less stable than the mega-sites we're used to.
Right, but social media (and any social movement) needs to have some degree of blood-pumping excitement. Constructive criticism is super important, but so is passionate people yelling at each other. The important thing is that we're emotionally mature enough to handle each other's passion. If infighting leads to people crying "defederate now!" then that's a problem. But "constructive" criticism can lead to the same fracturing.
Let's just ride the waves and steer this thing somewhere cool and strong! And it's fine if "infighting" is part of the engine that keeps the digital blood pumping.
I agree.
BUT some degree of infighting means we're alive and engaged with the platform. I think it's healthy infighting.
If we reach a critical mass before the corporate weasels sneak in, then we've stolen their first and best chance to gain leverage.
So the earliest wins are the biggest wins. We need users!
I'm in Canada and we just drink the tap water. Some northern and remote native communities have to boil their water and it's considered an embarrassing failure of basic human rights.
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