It'd be very convenient if I could negotiate with ants.
There are a group of western harvester ants in a rather inconvenient spot and I'd love if they could move like… 20' over. Or a few hundred feet in any of three different directions.
I saw an item on Dutch news not long ago about how invasive ant species in the Netherlands form supercolonies with millions of ants stretching out under complete street blocks and only growing further.
One of these is the Tapinoma Nigerrimum ant coming from the mediteranean with the warmer weather.
They do invade houses and apparently are attract to electricity. They also dig up sand for their colony, causing roads to get uneven or even have sinkholes in them.
@impactology one does not exclude the other. I consider "Sustainable FOSS" to be where devs can earn a decent living as well, if they desire to. Yes, the code can be "libre and gratis", but also paid in some form or other.
Yes, and their "exit to community" as well (though I dunno if that is finished just yet).
On the whole a large set of big challenges ail the FOSS community, where imho it can be said to be inherently unsustainable. The FOSS software is a huge success, has eaten the world, but the making of it is.. umm, in need of reform.
@impactology yes, I think that trends in the right direction. Sustainable businesses fitting a post-growth economy.
The social web may support commons-based peer production (esp. considering that any indirect or direct human interaction is social networking use case).
Social networking based on open standards / protocols can then serve to connect all these fragmented initiatives together. Imho this fragmentation is inhibiting to large extent the empowerment of these innovative approaches.
They're part of a grassroots movement. Initiative are too inward-focused / individualistic. Everyone goes their own direction, 'equaling each other out', not building pressure.
> federation of Worker Cooperatives
Yes, but still does not fit the social dynamics of a grassroots movement. You get larger organized/governed structures, but these do not scale well. You get all kinds of issues with power dynamics & leadership.
Very often you see that these federations of cooperatives / commmunities / other organizations when they intend to form collaborations, they create this partnership network. But in practice it mostly ends up that each of them shows a "logo wall" of whom they partner with, yet this only goes skin deep and often isn't even mutually indicated.
There's a design pattern that is (somewhat tongue in cheek) named multi-single-tenant.
The idea is basically that you have individually created (and often provisioned) systems that are run on the same base system, sharing many of the same core pieces of infrastructure but in a way that keeps strict separation between them.
So I can deprovision someone and that's basically a wipeout. No tracking data to weird places, it's all under one provisioning handle.
What interests me here is the upcoming trend to build local-first clients, and how these may fit into a social web. Of course there are servers in that picture, but if the social web were service-oriented and the client an 'orchestrator' of services, it would be a whole different paradigm.
You get rid of the "technical self-hosting" problem.. just install a client. You can deal with the ownership of data issue.. at the client.
And the social web would be a 'marketplace' of services.
So interesting, segmenting video via mindmaps instead of timestamps https://akomaps.com/
"Ako Maps is a suite of learning tools that links visual diagrams to video lessons.. Ako Maps can be 'linked' to lessons. Browse the map, then click a topic to navigate directly to that topic in the video"
That is really cool. Esp. if this would be 2-way interactive, inviting the active participation of citizens and allowed e.g people to crowdsource information gathering, or discussing with argument maps, etc.
People there, like @khinsen are using #GlamorousToolkit which is also a nice idea to make highly interactive #UX. Though I find the #UI a bit overwhelming (can be better?)
I really like those. Esp. how 1) enables 2) and shifts focus to be intentional, triggers imagination and creativity, stimulates collaboration and co-creation.
I was inspired by @tastapodhttps://cupid.dev to take the concept of #JoyfulCoding one step further into the holistic idea of #JoyfulCreation involving every creator. And instead of #UI and #UX breathe life into the 'stalled' field of Social experience design #SX as a design method.
Social Coding movement isn't a 'community' and grows organically as a DoOcracy (or does not, future will tell). I made SX part of it. Where we see a SX perspective missing is e.g. in the evolution of the Fediverse, where everyone creates app siloes to connect.