Post by @smallcircles@social.coop

2026-06-22 09:32 UTC

@innocentzero@social.tchncs.de @ricci@discuss.systems @cwebber@social.coop @dialecticalmusings If you take as the definition of social networking: Any direct and indirect human interaction between people. And add ActivityPub in the full power of its conceptual architecture: A social graph of addressible actors that exchange activities with an object payload, fully extensible. Then you have raw power to model about any online service where people interact with each other. As part of my elaboration on Social experience design (SX) I coined "Personal social networking" as the exercise on how we can translate social networking practices we do for 1,000's of years offline, and think about how to seamlessly extend them with online support. We talk so much how Moderation is essential, and there must be a Block and Suspend button etcetera.. but where do I have this offline in real social situations? Somehow social happens differently there. There's no moderator looking over my shoulder if I walk the streets of my town.

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@smallcircles@social.coop 2026-06-22 09:39

@innocentzero@social.tchncs.de @ricci@discuss.systems @cwebber@social.coop @dialecticalmusings Moderation is undoubtedly needed in many cases, but it is likely also done in many different ways and not a one-size-fits-all approach that moderates an overly complex microblog feed that no one can picture the intricate social dynamics that take place. A handful of basic app features aren't able to support that well. And yet we are trying to create that now. The current fediverse represents a lack of fantasy, where it is still Twitter what we have. With a course correction of ActivityPub as a low-level communication protocol of building blocks and rules, what is build on top of it comes in the realm of Solution development. Carefully designed solutions to handle particular social settings and use cases. And where, if you want to have good interoperability, the business and application domains of these solutions also need to undergo good standardardization practices. Getting there requires putting focus to the right places.

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