When illustrating the Fediverse as a network, what should the nodes be?
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@evan potatoes! interconected by their roots
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I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by "software", but potentially "Everything but Topics".
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@evan@cosocial.ca @gaditb@icosahedron.website no Pleroma/Akkoma
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@evan I think that's a map of the development ecosystem and of developer communities/the social construction of software,
so not nothing but very distinct from what making Instances nodes would be a map of.
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@evan potatoes! interconected by their roots
@categulario @evan blahajs
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@evan potentially as software Types:
Blog, Microblog, Photoblog, Forums, Bookreviews! -
@evan But, probably for what I think you want this for, it should 100% be instance.
Again being a parody of myself, but with acknowledgements to Virginia Shea (1995):
> "The ActivityPub Matrix" refers to all the computers in the world that can exchange JSON-LD Objects.
> "The Fediverse" means almost the same thing. It's sort of a psychic superset of the ActivityPub Matrix -- it's the psychic space in which people interact when they communicate via ActivityPub. "Cyberspace" and "the Fediverse" are used synonymously in this book. -
@evan I prefer “servers” as a synonym for “instances”; I picked another item from the poll but that’s an aside to the options presented.
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@evan potentially as software Types:
Blog, Microblog, Photoblog, Forums, Bookreviews!@evan I’m not a fan of relying on specific software because it becomes either referencing niche (little known outside our tech circles) software OR silo clones but interconnected which also adds a layer of abstraction
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@evan I think that's a map of the development ecosystem and of developer communities/the social construction of software,
so not nothing but very distinct from what making Instances nodes would be a map of.
@gaditb It says "Fediverse" in the title.
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@gaditb It says "Fediverse" in the title.
@evan I know I mean, functionally.
If I draw something that's a map of Ellenville and label it Springfield it still works as a map of Ellenville.
(And like, it's a (maybe, I assume) map of the developer communities/social landscape around the software construction /of Fediverse software in particular/, so arguably that's not an inaccurate label on it...)
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@evan I know I mean, functionally.
If I draw something that's a map of Ellenville and label it Springfield it still works as a map of Ellenville.
(And like, it's a (maybe, I assume) map of the developer communities/social landscape around the software construction /of Fediverse software in particular/, so arguably that's not an inaccurate label on it...)
@gaditb You asked for clarification, and I gave you an example of the kind of diagram I meant, from https://www.britannica.com/technology/fediverse .
There are a lot of others. This is not an unusual way for people to diagram the Fediverse. Here's the one from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#/media/File:A_view_into_the_Fediverse.png
I think the people who made these diagrams intended them to be diagrams of the Fediverse, which is why they labelled them "The Fediverse".
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@evan I prefer “servers” as a synonym for “instances”; I picked another item from the poll but that’s an aside to the options presented.
@andypiper I think it's better too!
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@gaditb You asked for clarification, and I gave you an example of the kind of diagram I meant, from https://www.britannica.com/technology/fediverse .
There are a lot of others. This is not an unusual way for people to diagram the Fediverse. Here's the one from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#/media/File:A_view_into_the_Fediverse.png
I think the people who made these diagrams intended them to be diagrams of the Fediverse, which is why they labelled them "The Fediverse".
@evan Oh! Sorry, I thought that was like, an example of what you were thinking about in the conversation ij general. I didn't realize you meant it as example-of-existing-usage, my bad.
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@evan Wow. This is a tough one. Bravo.
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@evan Wow. This is a tough one. Bravo.
@rickscully Thank you!
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@andypiper I think it's better too!
@evan@cosocial.ca @andypiper@macaw.social didn't found servers then I chose softwares diversity must be clear. I'm bored of CEOs and branding.
Communities.
