I agree with most of this thread, but those of us that have worked at Mozilla can tell you that the answer is almost never "Mozilla should do this." And I say that with love.https://twitter.com/benwerd/status/982646916281348097?s=20 …
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Every time someone thinks "Mozilla should be doing this", it's something that person needs to stand up and start doing. It's stuff we *all* should be doing.
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Erm. Any project of that sort of size and complexity is going to require a lot of people, time, money and coordination. Aka: funding. Very few organizations have that without a raw profit motive that tends to screw them up.
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The superpower/curse of the internet is that it enables asymmetric engagement of hegemonic power structures. Small groups can solve big problems, and unpredictably impact the well-organized and well-monied players.
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But I think all sizes of project are important in this way. If we all work to make the stuff we want to see to in the world, even in small pieces, it'll move the big pieces.
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Diaspora and Mastodon beg to differ. These things are going to take concerted effort from the ground floor from people who have the expertise and resources (and designers) to make them what they need to be.
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What does a software social network need to be? I honestly don’t know anymore, feeling compasslessness there. I mean, I’m super glad we get to chat on it
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Me, i have no idea, but that'd be a helluva conversation to have if you could get the right people in the room. (Who are the right people? Whole other conversation to have first..etc. Yaks everywhere.)
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That said, "users first" would probably be #1 in the first draft of its manifesto
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The social manifesto is a great idea. Articulating the characteristics of the software we want to see in the world is definitely a way to influence the makers of it.
I like the work @peterbihr and others have been doing around this in the land of IoT, eg https://medium.com/thingscon/over-the-last-few-months-ive-been-working-on-the-core-concept-of-a-trustmark-for-iot-that-still-e1b5b120f1d8 …
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