So, what’s the problem?
This entire piece gave me nothing to understand 'what's the problem' other han a personal beef with a key figure, a dislike for organisation and not understanding standardisation as an industry effort. So I see the author's problems, but still don't know anything about Social Web Foundation, other than that many people seem to feel left out.
Why is he like this?
This entire thing indeed seems to be about the author's personal perspective on Evan Prodromou
My growing concern is over what place the community will have in the governance process, or any decision-making process. As the echelons of power consolidate into a handful of decision-makers, as the emphasis focuses more on making a profit, as the gap widens between “leadership” and the poor sods hanging around at the bottom, the mutual aspect of community welfare gives way towards a dynamic very reminiscent of what we were all trying to get away from at one point or another: a fucking mall on the Internet, where people used to hang out.
organising is suspect by def then?
The creation of The Social Web Foundation deftly and carefully subverts that context, in such a way that the term “Social Web” only equals “Fediverse”. It even goes as far as wringing out the Fediverse’s own historical context as a multiprotocol polyglot network, by equating the Fediverse to just the ActivityPub
The Social Web by naming itself thus reduces social web to fediverse and then to AP only.
he term “Social Web” has been used on and off for a little while now, most prominently being offered as a simpler, cleaner name than “Fediverse”. Unfortunately, the term is a bit vague, in that it simply puts two words in a blender and mixes them together. During a discussion prior to FediForum March 2024, I proposed an alternate name: “Womp Triangle”, because it holds just about as much meaning and insight
And 'Fediverse' is what? Some trekkie couldn't decide between universe and The Federation. Idk what the problem is yet w the foundation, but this is the lamest critique thinkable.