2026-05-11 03:08 UTC
@ozoned
I think what we need is a serious systems design researcher, someone who can dig up and understand the fundamentals of network theory and of the architectures we once explored but have abandoned, or are slowly and haphazardly reinventing by bumbling around trying to define what we’re not.
That also has to be someone who understood the world before Canter & Siegel ever happened, because that decision to intrude on everyone’s networking for personal profit set this up.
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-05-11 03:18
@ozoned I don’t know if anyone ever thought to develop data or a systems map for Usenet, but pre-1994 NNTP network statistics is the closest analogy I could imagine to what we have now. But we would need a methodology to map the open social web considering each person to be their own node, and drawing out the progress of their connections to other nodes in that rolling window.
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@ozoned@btfree.social 2026-05-11 03:12
@johannab@cosocial.ca this is already FAR deeper than my knowledge on the field. :-D. Sounds like numerous research papers to be had for anyone willing. Lol. NOT me though. Not my forte. 😄