“Federated social media’s contribution to digital autonomy runs wider than another place to post. Public money funded a supply of parts and put it where anyone could reach it. Researchers used it to start rebuilding scientific publishing, a magazine’s readers used it to turn an audience into a membership, and a town can use it to let a river tell everyone what the water is doing. None of those had a commercial version to copy, and all of them exist.”
Linux Magazine talked to us about how and why we build Bonfire.
What we want next is "not a bigger Bonfire, but a network of cooperatives covering the whole supply chain of a community's digital space", who "do it together" rather than leave you to "do it yourself".
Because "federation, we don't see it as just a technical thing. We see it as a social, economic, and political tool as well."
Link: Supporting the Social Web: How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms
Also happy to spread the love for @coopcloud@social.coop, @coquest@social.coop, @SocialCoop@social.coop and more, check out the links at the end of the article! Thanks to @horncologne@fosstodon.org for a lovely conversation, and @linuxmagazine@fosstodon.org for publishing it, in a piece that also features the great @cwebber@social.coop and @tsyesika@mastodon.nu from @spritely@social.coop.
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