@smallcircles@social.coop I feel personally called out for this 😛
@No need to, I didn't call you out :)
I think the fediverse-we-have has become a very different one than the fediverse-promised based on the initial specs when there weren't implementations and an installed base making numerous design decisions in a very ad-hoc pragmatic fashion. Which is in itself fine, and a very good approach to get an ecosystem off the ground. But having the app-centric, app-first evolution be the primary evolution process, brought us to a different space than the ubiquitous, heterogeneous social networking environment we might all be working in, focused on exciting solution designs and less in all the plumbing and impl details.
No one is really to blame I guess. This is where laissez-faire in grassroots environments leads us, following the social dynamics that exist.
We can do better, but it is very hard in our individualist, FOSS-project-oriented herding of cats chaotic environment. The challenges are social in nature..
https://discuss.coding.social/t/major-challenges-for-the-fediverse/67
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