RE: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
This is a great #longread. If you're interested in #governance, the philosophy of open source and community decision making, the tension between top-down standardisation vs bottom up implementation – or just the direction of the #Fediverse – it's of interest and worth taking time out to read (or if time stretched, then until the brainstorming bit, or at the very least, the summary).
"The lack of governance and inability to have a say, leads to people not caring about the open standards, and it is only logical they act in this way. “Just do it” is simply the only pragmatic choice. But that credo is more value-aligned with Silicon Valley than it is with fediverse culture."
Some of the talented devs I know might be bored by it – it's a complexity that implies a friction to coding. But that shouldn't stop the rest of us understanding that in-between the Cathedral and the Bazaar there's a great garden, with both wild and cultivated elements, that needs taking care of…
In 2025 and with support of @nlnet I was able to continue my efforts, started in 2017, to help forge molecular bonds in our #fediverse petri dish, via my method of "Weaving in public", instrument of Social experience design. See:
https://discuss.coding.social/t/weaving-in-public-connecting-people-and-interests/85
The wicked problem is, when trying to organize for world improving radical change.. You can't be an atom that shouts: "All aboard! Let's form an organism and free us from the dish of #Hypercapitalism". It is not how Nature works. And yet, this is what we try to do, each in our own ways, and the means we are able provide.
To do this requires sustainable #evolution at scale for prolonged periods of time. To deliberately evolve into what we want to become: a better #future.
All our attempts to artificially scale, against forces of Nature, are doomed to fail. Nature emerges naturally, spontaneously, and grows organically.
We face the #Paradox of #Emergence in how we organize ourselves.
Topic of my next blog post..
@nicol thank you! I'm really glad you liked what I wrote down.
> it's a complexity that implies a friction to coding.
Very complex, and mostly where sociosphere expands from technosphere into broader society where the technology must land well. Which makes these social dynamics all the more fascinating to me, as we have so little awareness how that actually works in practice.
I intend to follow-up with a blog post that introduces the SEE model, for Sustainable ecosystem evolution.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116413746222685052
This model has a point on the value creation curve, which I dubbed the #ParadoxOfEmergence.
Past this point all the Potential that had been 'arranged' thus far by Investment in the emergent design - but which remained invisible to others as it sat purely in emergent space - suddenly becomes readily apparent to anyone. Often to the extent that in hindsight the solution seems very obvious, waiting to happen.
Especially in our grassroots commons the paradox can do its dirty work.
