garden/boris-mann.md

Boris Mann

• [go] bmannconsulting.com
• [garden] bmannconsulting.com
• [social.coop] https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2020/10/09/joining-social-coop/
• [mastodon] @bmann@social.coop
• [fediverse] @bmann@social.coop
• [project] [fission]

[2021-01-20]

• Greetings!
• Usernames
• Timezones
• [digital garden]
  • jekyll
  • Also includes microblog and other formats
• 20 years blogging!
• rediscovery
  • blog
  • [wiki] culture (note taking scene)
  • rss (links on twiter)
• [annotation] tools
  • [bmann] use self-hosted one-off blogs instead
    • topic go links
• [markdown] as a lingua franca
  • extension layers (tool specific)
• Q: which software are you running in bmannconsulting.com?
• [fission]
  • one experiment: not a cloud provider, but a constellation provider
    • a flattening: individual nodes are more capable
  • constellation provider is like integration hub
  • one username per user, but that is just a label on top on lower level abstractions that are flexible
  • decentralization is a side effect
  • goal increase user agency over their data and empower developers
• drive.fission.codes
  • remotestorage.io
• moa.party
  • We could set a bounty for instagram support?
• uses heroku
• [goals], values and biases
  • plus resources
• the [fediverse] is failing at:
  • documentation
  • talking about norms
  • how to run a node of any type
• orbit model
• if there is user owned content, then that is equivalent to a control surface
  • [note] ugc == user generated content has negative connotation
• [indie web]
• [agora protocol] for social discovery
  • chicken fingers vs tentacles
• the [agora] is a tool for building shared context
  • [mind merge]
• [stoa] is a shared context with explicit [goals], values and biases.
  • a data structure plus a social graph that is geared towards solving problem.
  • a squad is a collection of [people] with a set of skills coming together to work on a task or accomplish a goal.