A Plan for Social Media - What? ✅ Why? ✅ Who? 🤷
Can anyone learn from Mozilla’s failure and find success in an open social web? »
Can anyone learn from Mozilla’s failure and find success in an open social web? »
This is part of a series of posts about the current state of Social Media. I talked about Mozilla’s failed strategy to get people out of the corporate-controlled networks and into the open alternatives and made a quick demonstration of how ActivityPub is used to power the “Social Web”. I wanted to talk about these things before I get to the main point of my thesis: the “Fediverse” as a concept of “servers who can interact with one another” is antithetical to the open, social web. »
All the Social Media is a stage, And all actors merely players: They have their inboxes and their outboxes; And one domain to broadcast many activities. »
Mozilla’s foray into Social Media did not pan out. Users are slowly creeping back to Twitter and Reddit. Is this a sign the future of the Fediverse is at risk, or do we just need some course correction? »
Bobby, I don’t know. But what’s in ever I play, it’s got to be funky! »