Boris Mann

• a [[person]].
  • [[friend]].
  • [[coder]] [[founder]] [[cooperativist]]
    • [[fission]]
  • [[go]] bmannconsulting.com
  • [[garden]] https://github.com/bmann/bmcgarden
  • [[social coop]] https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2020/10/09/joining-social-coop/
    • [[mastodon]] https://social.coop/@bmann
    • [[federation]] @bmann@social.coop

[[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]].