So, what’s the problem?

Why is he like this?

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.

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

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