Discussion
I’ve been thinking about community software most of my life.
23 years ago, I started organizing communities.
15 years ago, I joined the wave of "next-generation" forums that popularized community as an enterprise feature.
7 years ago, I began reflecting on everything I'd learned in a notebook.
3 years ago, I drafted a few core "beliefs".
6 months ago, I rewrote them to start getting feedback.
Yesterday, I published my 5 beliefs:
I'm curious what you think about them. If you're interested in talking, reach out!
But, if you just want to know if I'm more excited about #ATProto or #ActivityPub... you've missed my point. 😅
No protocol can save us, because the challenge is not existing technology, it's unexamined assumptions. I want to dare to believe in something different.
Those 5 principles are spooking me because I don’t think we’ve met but you’re narrating my own thoughts…
I’m at the beginning of a bumpy meander trying to pitch community-first social tech to urbanism and climate orgs. May I add your page to my reference heap?
@johannab Not at all, happy to help. I think (hope?) they are a natural place to arrive with enough critical thought & experiences. There are deep conflicts between "enterprise community" and its VC-directed goals vs community that prioritizes people. There is a lot of money invested in papering over them, but if you pull on that thread long enough, you start to find the seams.
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