Calum Mackervoy @calum@fosstodon.org

There's a discussion going on about whether the Fediverse should set up a governance structure to decide its future

I think that the Fediverse should be governed as a co-operative ! I don't think it makes sense to govern a decentralised network with a centralised hierarchy ?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/what-would-a-fediverse-governance-body-look-like/1497/22

#coops #mastodon #fediverse #governance #activitypub

Launched a website for the Multi User Domain project I've been working on http://multi-user-domain.github.io/

We're building on semantic web technologies to create an open-source platform for building "infinite" open text-based adventure games

#multiuserdomain #foss #rpg #gaming #linkeddata #solid

We made a game! Over the weekend I participated in the Global Game Jam and we made a chess-like arcade game where your pieces move semi-automatically and your goal is to protect an unpredictable king

https://calum.mackervoy.com/en/2022/01/31/ggj-2022.html

The lapwing soars high,

The eagle is on the run!

Short wings multiply

I think that the lack of peer governance in the Fediverse is a vulnerability for self-serving interests and for "market poisoning" or enclosure

I pinned a toot that's important to me. It links to a thread about governance in the Fediverse (https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/what-would-a-fediverse-governance-body-look-like/1497/22). To protect a commons like the Fediverse, it's paramount that governance is completed by the community on a direct basis. This is not the same thing as *no* governance. We have to self-organise!

#mastodon #fediverse #governance

There is an open letter calling for the resignation of Eugen Rochko (Gargron) from Mastodon development: https://seedy.xyz/posts/0005-open-letter/

The letter mentions some technical disagreements and the manner in which they've been handled, but most concerningly to me efforts to make Mastodon "marketable" to venture capitalists which may amount to nothing short of the enclosure of our common space

in the concept of Development:

“The lead runners show the way; they are at the forefront of social evolution, indicating a common destination even for countries which had highly diverse trajectories in the past. Many different histories merge into one ‘master history’ ... the imagined time is linear, only allowing for progressing or regressing” (Wolfgang Sachs)

And yet we know the destination of this 'master history' already! This is an oppressive pretension and it is poison!

"A society composed of exiles is literally an exiled society - exiled from the roots of human consociation in care and nurture"

-- Murray Bookchin (from The Ecology of Freedom)

The world that you created is not mightier than our means to remake it

An AI created a 'new' Nirvana song and humans performed it. I think it's pretty good

https://www.loudersound.com/news/listen-to-new-nirvana-song-drowned-in-the-sun-created-by-artificial-intelligence

new blog post 😁

Building an Asynchronous Queue for managing ActivityStreams messages in Python
https://calum.mackervoy.com/en/2021/03/05/activity-queue-service.html

Création d'Une Queue Asynchrone pour la Gestion des Messages ActivityStreams en Python
https://calum.mackervoy.com/fr/2021/03/05/activity-queue-service.html

There's a discussion going on about whether the Fediverse should set up a governance structure to decide its future

I think that the Fediverse should be governed as a co-operative ! I don't think it makes sense to govern a decentralised network with a centralised hierarchy ?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/what-would-a-fediverse-governance-body-look-like/1497/22

#coops #mastodon #fediverse #governance #activitypub

Anyone with a huge wad of cash who wants to invest in Multi User Domain but isn't interested in property, power or deadlines hit me up

Launched a website for the Multi User Domain project I've been working on http://multi-user-domain.github.io/

We're building on semantic web technologies to create an open-source platform for building "infinite" open text-based adventure games

#multiuserdomain #foss #rpg #gaming #linkeddata #solid