Fediverse Governance
Tim Bray,
ongoing by Tim Bray,
Jul 02, 2023
It's useful to contrast how decisions are made in the fediverse with how they are made in commercial social media and how they are made on school, college or university platforms. In this post, Tim Bray outlines how the fediverse works, including especially Mastodon, and describes as a case study a key image facing it: whether to allow Meta (aka Facebook) to create a service (called 'Threads") that interoperates with it. What's important here is not what different sites decide, but how they go about making the decision. Unlike most other services, fediverse instances consult their members. "Who wasn't involved? Venture capitalists. Entrepreneurs. Advertisers. Private-equity people. Billionaires." As it should be.
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