still believe that the ideal decentralized social network would look like IRC. IRC never reached mainstream for many reasons (no rich clients, UX, no mobile etc). centrally governed servers that vote to bridge w/ each other on an open protocol and fix where IRC failed above imo

obviously room for multiple players, and I still have nostalgia for my IRC days -- Farcaster is sick. might even be better! I need to deep dive into tools like Fediverse to see what's good/bad about it. Just exploring and thinking out loud.

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → /phil → phil.cockfield.net, db.team →  ƒ(trust / time) →  ƒ(open-commons) → ƒ( /sys )  ← @cell primitive<T> 🧫

repost: If a slack client was built on top of IRC back in 1996-1999, me thinks IRC would still be super relevant today. i'm no slack power user, but I'm not entirely sure you can bridge many slack servers together, where each server can moderate its own users

Big fan of harvesting the "not fully realised" patterns from history.

Slack was IRC redone...although a different universe network topology wise to decentralisation.

But building on the (unknown) past is a super power.

"Innovate ONLY as a last resort" ← Charles Eames

I never tried Fediverse, I'd like to see servers where each server has its own governing body, rich multimedia clients, mobile support, and the ability for arbitrary servers to be able to vote/disconnect with each other in a decentralized format. if fediverse has that, I'd at least look into it to see why I'm wrong