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a shitpost, yes, but one which fairly succinctly describes a thing that i wish to exist
which would underpin other of my other big-brain software ideas if it did,
and so will someday become the bullshit which i am back on once more immediate concerns are out of the way.
nearest thing i've seen described publicly is probably @nasser's absolutely thrilling sawa 😍
a decentralized collaborative wiki with a governance model inspired by Anarchist theory and practice
a shitpost, yes, but one which fairly succinctly describes a thing that i wish to exist
which would underpin other of my other big-brain software ideas if it did,
and so will someday become the bullshit which i am back on once more immediate concerns are out of the way.
nearest thing i've seen described publicly is probably @nasser's absolutely thrilling sawa 😍
a decentralized collaborative wiki with a governance model inspired by Anarchist theory and practice
@pho4cexa ooh, I love the sounds of SAWA. I think we need to abandon the idea that everyone needs to share the same global view of everything, and the interesting question then is how we can do anything when we've lost that, so I'm delighted to see somebody seriously exploring that question. nice work, @nasser! also your illustrations are a delightful complement to your essay.
I recently learned that Ward Cunningham has also been working on wikis without central trusted authorities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Wiki) but I haven't dug into what trust his approach still requires.
@jamey oh yeah, (what he used to call "simplest") federated wiki is pretty inspiring
it demonstrates what a web might look like where it is normative for any reader to fork a site to make their own changes without trampling others'
but my impression has always been that the focus absolutely needs to be first on the curation of one's view of the network: weighting appropriately the amount of influence your friends have over what versions you see vs. that of horrible randos
@jamey still: imagine a world where the "federated wiki" interaction with online info became the norm. edit any website, and people can (but are not forced to) see your changes. upstream can pull your edits in if they like. attribution in place automatically, nobody thinking they need to sue people for "stealing" their "traffic"
