But what does it mean for systems to be social? Here's something you can't do on either ActivityPub or ATProto, but is a demo we built with Goblins and OCapN: a collaborative farming game! https://spritely.institute/news/goblinville-a-spring-lisp-game-jam-2025-retrospective.html
Earlier I mentioned that fun and joy are actually very important. Indeed, the success of *all* social networks, and indeed, almost every kind of tech, has been rooted in people having joyful, often shared, experiences together.
Joy is part of resistance. And joy is part of our tech.
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