Even more than Gleam community the AS/AP based fediverse faces existential threats where it comes to the promise to lead us towards "the future of social networking", a peopleverse. And poses high danger risks that must be known, so we can anticipate and mitigate them timely.

But above all we have to find ways to constructively collaborate with each in this chaotic grassroots environment we are part of.

and at scale, organic growth and sustainable evolution are applied research areas of Social coding commons, where participants add value while working on their own solutions, following their self-interests in alignment with those of other people

To folks who are interested in the general subject matter I addressed above, I recommend watching the talk given by Michiel Leenaars of @nlnet at last month:

"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI" by @michielMichiel Leenaars

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

@nlnet @michielMichiel Leenaars

And see also the extensive posts I made the past 2 weeks on the subject matter, reiterating the many subjects and challenges of healthy ecosystem formation that ail the community and at large for many years now. I pinned one of those relevant threads to my profile at:

social.coop/@smallcircles/1161

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