My dream on the future of online #SocialNetworking? Simple. One that supports #people and #humanity much better than it does now, so it actually serves mankind.
I want us to get past the madness of mindless #DigitalTransformation, vicious spyware metaverses, and hungry #AI. That's all hypercapitalism. Dehumanising us, eroding the #social fabric, so it can prolong itself and serve the elite owner classes.
#Peopleverse starts offline, where we're humans of flesh and blood, living our daily life.
An alternative name for the Fediverse:
Peopleverse
Via @ayo 's article:
"Why I Care So Much About the Fediverse"
https://ayos.blog/why-fediverse/
“In simple terms, the Fediverse is the “Internet of People”.”
~~Product features:~~
Social experience characteristics:
- Incredible unusability (for users)
- Extreme delight (for people)
Yes, there's #hope #optimism #positivity #progress #cohesion #inclusion #diversity
Where?
On #fedi of course! Our spiral island 
Our #peopleverse 
https://fedi.foundation/2021/04/fediverse-spiral-island-analogy
@frankstrater @dansup @peertube @Gargron
I am not advocating to throw tech at things and see what sticks to the wall. That I call what others dogmatically pursue and think is what people want: #DigitalTransformation
We live in a #technosphere and a big chasm of missing #sociosphere must be bridged.
I'm hobbying along here in #fedi advocacy for years hoping to share dreams of #peopleverse. This I now continue at #SocialCoding movement under the flag of #SocialExperienceDesign (or simply #SX)
#coding --> #socialcoding
#community --> #movement
#users --> #fedizens
and
#technosphere --> #sociosphere
#fediverse --> #peopleverse
#foss --> #soss
and
#socialmedia --> #socialnetworking
#socialgraph --> #socialfabric
#techstack --> #socialstack
#app --> #solution #service
#product --> #socialexperience
and
#dx #ux #ui --> #sx
#project --> #fsdl
#projects --> #ecosystem
#development --> #cocreation
#forge --> #forging
#contributor --> #peer
#contributing --> #peerproduction
#WARN Severe #RealityFault. #AlternativeReality encountered. #TruthMissing.
#FAULT #Newspeak #AI recursion. #Realspeak correction route 404_NOT_FOUND. Call #OrwellSupport for patch to #SocietySystems
INFO #Orwell #HealthSupport. We invert it to make it #right. From #Skynet to #Peopleverse we serve #YOU. Please dial #CriticalThinking101 for our #WickedSolution #DeliveryService
![Snapshot of a DuckDuckGo search result where AI Assist's top-level recommendation box states that the best match for the word "plaid" - the simplest most common word imaginable - stands for "Plaid is a financial technology company that enables [BULLSHIT SOCIETY]" i.e. yada yada marketing bile.](https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/882/042/397/239/726/original/782b78f7511239a3.png "Snapshot of a DuckDuckGo search result where AI Assist's top-level recommendation box states that the best match for the word \"plaid\" - the simplest most common word imaginable - stands for \"Plaid is a financial technology company that enables [BULLSHIT SOCIETY]\" i.e. yada yada marketing bile.")
The #Pixelfed kickstarter result is some fabulous news, and I am very happy that Daniel has chosen this path now. Look how fast and ready to spring in action the whole #fedi community is. Hope this effort will become exemplaric and a beautiful transition journey to long-term sustainable #FOSS. To a #peopleverse and beyond :)
Congratulations @dansup 
It is but a simple concept and that makes #Peopleverse attractive to me. Easier to keep direction *despite* the #tech, towards solution space.
An easy to grasp and evaluate #SocioTechnological vision. Just compare with everyday life. Imagine some #social situation and context and picture seeing it from ones own eyes, then compare to what we all too easily think works similarly #online. Where we mess up with our mismatched #SocialSkills and wrong expectations of outcome.
in calmness@smallcircles @mysteriarch I like that #peopleverse concept where technology and human needs are aligned in, at least, the most obvious ways they are currently misaligned. I have always been working toward such, myself.
In the field of #HCI, despite the C for computer, the study officially includes all kinds of #informatics, or informational systems, even those that do not rely exclusively on electronics.
Btw in this diagram it is clear that a #sociosphere is needed, or else we are all stuck in the #technosphere as we are today.
I call the hypothetical sweet spot where socio and technosphere are seamlessly aligned and tuned to the needs of people and planet a #peopleverse ..
The current #fediverse is a typical technosphere. We can emulate some "social" but social bandwidth is tiny. There's a lot of "manual social" (the regular kind) we can do to improve, realizing this.
Well-spoken plea for a better internet, and by extension a better world by Kim van Sparrentak. Happy to have her as representative in the #EU parliament for the #Netherlands.
Thank you @kimvsparrentak for the work that you do, and your important voice.
Thus to introduce a viable alternative economic model that aligns with human and planetary needs, we should first of all design a system that helps reinforce virtues, offer technological support that reinforce the levels of humanity in all of us.
Only then can we hope to counteract the eroding forces of #hypercapitalism on the social fabric of society and put stop to the destruction of our planet. Shape beautiful ways for us to live together that gradually take the upper hand.
A #peopleverse.
