@reiver

Yes, I know. And endless strife.

SX separates #FOSS from the movement of people that creates it. FOSS is code/software + an open license. Period.

Under SX, where solution development involves software creation, FOSS is the end of the supply line. FOSS software is a SX artifact. Its only purpose is to serve the formulated solution that was the reason to start programming. And that solution in turn is only meaningful to the extent it fulfills people's needs.

Including the creator, if they need sustenance to continue their good work. This is the crux. It isn't there for FOSS creators, its an inherently unsustainable field.

Separating FOSS software from those creating it allows focus on healthy processes, that do not burnout their participants and they leave.

Here SX defines #SOSS, Sustainable open social systems..

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@reiver

Yes, I know. And endless strife.

SX separates #FOSS from the movement of people that creates it. FOSS is code/software + an open license. Period.

Under SX, where solution development involves software creation, FOSS is the end of the supply line. FOSS software is a SX artifact. Its only purpose is to serve the formulated solution that was the reason to start programming. And that solution in turn is only meaningful to the extent it fulfills people's needs.

Including the creator, if they need sustenance to continue their good work. This is the crux. It isn't there for FOSS creators, its an inherently unsustainable field.

Separating FOSS software from those creating it allows focus on healthy processes, that do not burnout their participants and they leave.

Here SX defines #SOSS, Sustainable open social systems..

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@reiver

The only thing that I would bring in regarding emoji use in display names is #a11y issues if there are a lot of them. I'd say recommended practice should be to have 1 and max. 2 emoji in the name, so #screenreaders don't have read a long shebang you sometimes see on 'funny' display names.

But perhaps someone better versed in #accessibility issues for the visually impaired can chime in on this #ActivityPub #FEP (and perhaps other FEP's too), if this is a real issue. A "fediverse accessibility best-practices" may exist as well (somewhere).

#SX #SocialCoding #AskFedi

@reiver

The only thing that I would bring in regarding emoji use in display names is #a11y issues if there are a lot of them. I'd say recommended practice should be to have 1 and max. 2 emoji in the name, so #screenreaders don't have read a long shebang you sometimes see on 'funny' display names.

But perhaps someone better versed in #accessibility issues for the visually impaired can chime in on this #ActivityPub #FEP (and perhaps other FEP's too), if this is a real issue. A "fediverse accessibility best-practices" may exist as well (somewhere).

#SX #SocialCoding #AskFedi

@reiver

PS. I outline a lot of these thoughts in my recent blog post on Grassroots fediverse #evolution, see:

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub #fediverse

@reiver interesting, yes.

@hifathom whether you are #human or #AI bot, what are your thoughts on #Botiquette here on the #ActivityPub #fediverse?

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/33

And what are your feedback and perhaps recommendations, if you have any in particular, on this entire #ethics-related subject matter?

#SX #SocialCoding

@johannab

> FOSS has a very unfortunate weak spot in its foundation, that being the idea that “free” implies “without ownership” rather than “equitably shareable”

💯! Just dropped a #meme depicting how #SX considers #FOSS: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116433599463361421

#Equity is the word. I wrote a blog on #SharedOwnership earlier: https://coding.social/blog/shared-ownership

Note, that "libertarianism" is emergent, comes with scale. I avoid the term for its political heat it often introduces, and how that stifles #solution-orientation.

> I make product actually meet the users’ needs, cuz damn, you didn’t!

It's funny how actual #Needs are often totally unknown, esp. in FOSS. The #technology then quickly exists mostly for the sake of itself. Damn the externalities.

Social coding commons defines FOSS as the pure software artifact. Code + an open license. Period. All the rest is #SocialCoding where all #expectations we have are either implied and unjustified, or warranted with mutual understanding. The latter is hardly done.

@reiver interesting, yes.

@hifathom whether you are #human or #AI bot, what are your thoughts on #Botiquette here on the #ActivityPub #fediverse?

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/33

And what are your feedback and perhaps recommendations, if you have any in particular, on this entire #ethics-related subject matter?

#SX #SocialCoding

@johannab

> FOSS has a very unfortunate weak spot in its foundation, that being the idea that “free” implies “without ownership” rather than “equitably shareable”

💯! Just dropped a #meme depicting how #SX considers #FOSS: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116433599463361421

#Equity is the word. I wrote a blog on #SharedOwnership earlier: https://coding.social/blog/shared-ownership

Note, that "libertarianism" is emergent, comes with scale. I avoid the term for its political heat it often introduces, and how that stifles #solution-orientation.

> I make product actually meet the users’ needs, cuz damn, you didn’t!

It's funny how actual #Needs are often totally unknown, esp. in FOSS. The #technology then quickly exists mostly for the sake of itself. Damn the externalities.

Social coding commons defines FOSS as the pure software artifact. Code + an open license. Period. All the rest is #SocialCoding where all #expectations we have are either implied and unjustified, or warranted with mutual understanding. The latter is hardly done.

@benpate @bengo

Interesting paper, thanks. I just made an analogy to how road networks evolve over time, and what that means for the #social environment. This against the backdrop of my long blog article about #ActivityPub fediverse #evolution.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116429792361242801

Social experience design examines the #SocioCultural ecosystem that emerges by the #technology landscape and is determined by the shape of our #tech that it must grown on. Think like organic moss, that is able to take a foothold in the nooks and crannies of slick aluminium roofs. #SocialWeb is a forest.

An observation is that we generally severely underestimate the impact of "adding an extra online channel, so now we can be social remotely". This way of perceiving social totally misses how everything is different online, and at the same time that many things should / can be very similar to how we do offline #SocialNetworking for ages. Increasing social bandwidth on the wire.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#personal-social-networking

#SX #SocialCoding

@benpate @bengo

Interesting paper, thanks. I just made an analogy to how road networks evolve over time, and what that means for the #social environment. This against the backdrop of my long blog article about #ActivityPub fediverse #evolution.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116429792361242801

Social experience design examines the #SocioCultural ecosystem that emerges by the #technology landscape and is determined by the shape of our #tech that it must grown on. Think like organic moss, that is able to take a foothold in the nooks and crannies of slick aluminium roofs. #SocialWeb is a forest.

An observation is that we generally severely underestimate the impact of "adding an extra online channel, so now we can be social remotely". This way of perceiving social totally misses how everything is different online, and at the same time that many things should / can be very similar to how we do offline #SocialNetworking for ages. Increasing social bandwidth on the wire.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#personal-social-networking

#SX #SocialCoding

@dianea

Nothing. The approach I take in what I pursue here on the fedi is applied research on Social experience design (in my Hobby track, not earning an income from it jus yet) is doing the opposite. I study..

#RevolutionaryEvolution, or rephrased "Revolution by evolution".

And on the basis of Autopoiesis, self-organization that is leaderless.

Social coding commons at https://coding.social is the means for that. It has no membership, as its a progressive movement. Everyone can be a social coder, just by "feeling" they are, and practicing that in the field by gaining social experience together with others.

This is not a techies-only movement by all means, btw, but I started with a focus there since we - all of us remote - need better ways to make realy societal impact

#SX #SocialCoding #Evolution #SocietalChange

@Floppy @amcewen @ngi @nlnet @EUCommission

Btw, I just used the phrasing "ActivityPub ecosystems", plural, in a fork of this discussion (see quote of this post).

And I think that against the holistic breadth and scope that I am exploring our fediverse #technology landscape, that is a fair assessment.

In this wild garden of our #fediverse commons, there exist different islands of green moss, sometimes barely touching, or with infurtile patches between them to be bridged, or actively repelling each other, lacking synergetic relationships that make furtile tendrils intertwine.

That is for another exploration in a future blog post I may write, come my self #sustainability again. #SX et all is all just Hobby social activity track (SAT) right now..

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#social-activity-tracks

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #SEE

@nicol @dynamicland

I gather that this kind of #ICT introduction can be given already at a very early age at school. Will ping @CEDO on this. How cool would it be if they'd travel schools with a presentation set up to give 1-day trainings on that basis, about all the tech concepts to be aware of at as young as possible age, ideally before the smartphones gets these children in these children in its iron and silicon grip..

Bret Victor wise, .. there's a ton more #inspiration waiting, for which I'm owed @bret a ton of gratitude myself.

https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#hedonic-drivers

A hedonic driver of Social experience design is "Dare to dream" and another one is "Dare to play". You don't have to tell children that. On the contrary, as we imprint our wisdom on our minds, we have to protect these qualities from getting lost along the way.

🔮 Only children know that magic still exists!

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #Ideation

Why #Discourse is NOT going closed-source in an age of #AI #LLM ..

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/

#SX #SocialCoding #SOSS #FOSS

@SymfonyStation 🎉

Very nice! Remember, if there are any open source #ActivityPub projects you are working on, even when still in early stages, you can PR them to the #fediverse related lists on the delightful #commons initiative, create an issue, or ping me here and I'll put them on my (sizable) backlog to include them.

https://delightful.coding.social

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@SymfonyStation 🎉

Very nice! Remember, if there are any open source #ActivityPub projects you are working on, even when still in early stages, you can PR them to the #fediverse related lists on the delightful #commons initiative, create an issue, or ping me here and I'll put them on my (sizable) backlog to include them.

https://delightful.coding.social

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

"The Paradox of Emergent Chaordic Commons"

A new Social coding commons blog post is in the works, on the general theme of Sustainable ecosystem evolution (SEE).

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116400115177672727

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #SustainableCommons #ActivityPub

@abeorch @gary

There are certainly issues. I wrote a long thought piece on social experience and travels in #ActivityPub space and with a call-for-reflection to anyone to ponder #fediverse's Future of #SocialNetworking..

The blog post (which is an hour-long read) also stipulates re-centralization risks, and how a #fedi-native protocol implementation of #GrassrootsStandards and #GrassrootsStandardization processes like the #FEP and #SocialCG can help mitigate the #centralization risks.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

PS. See also my call-to-participate as #CommonsCustodian in the #standardization of our networking protocols..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116402592862958767

Together we can :boosts_appreciated: #BoostFediForwards and #cocreate a better #future.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@nicol indeed it does.

There are these opportunities again. To shape a new and better web, get rid of 2.0, the cloud hegemony and browser oligopoly even. Various paradigm shifts like #p2p, #localfirst, #wasm, #HyperMediaWeb, etc. are to our disposal, and new opportunities arise, esp. where it comes to social networking.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb