Good title, puts humanity front and center in socsoft discussion. Key wrt [[Menselijk en digitaal netwerk zijn gelijksoortig 20200810142551]]

yes, we call it social media these days, and the focus is on media, not social. Yet [[Menselijk en digitaal netwerk zijn gelijksoortig 20200810142551]], meaning we should design such tools starting from human social dynamics.

We have that proof, once you let go of the notion that everyone should be on the same tech platform to count as social network. Offline social networks are by def decentralised and operate by consensus (or they split, change, move on), we build governance mushrooms on top of it (countries, democracies) that are the scaling layers, but not the building block. Mimick human networks digitally (which internet fundamentally already is) and it will be fine, messy as humans are, but fine in terms of utility and value derived by people using their tools. Tarkowski hits on key points, but seemingly takes the notions of scale and the centrality of a tech platform (and calling that the community) as a given, whereas I see them as the narrative that bigger tech platforms created. For them that narrative was necessary to be able to monetise, to get above the Cosean Floor with funding. There is no presumptive need for any social networks to be at scale for the entirety of human interaction to be at scale as a result. Community is not a synonym for platform or for the combination of a platform and its users. Approaching the fediverse from this 'big tech' framing more likely permeates the Paradox of Open it starts with than the resulting suggestions solve it. Escape it by working with the actual human meaning and level of social networks and the tools they deploy to interact, and ensure they can interconnect. E-mail, snail mail, SSB, IFPS make more sense here than Twitter, FB et al.

Just mentioned in passing. To me this is a key one, especially as networks is where the human and digital fully overlap / become the same. Humans are intuitively good at networks of humans, digital networks present the same structures over which those people interact with their human networks. [[Menselijk en digitaal netwerk zijn gelijksoortig 20200810142551]] It's where the potential of distributedness is at, as well as the unit of agency, human digital networks. Should better detail this, as it is key in my [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]]

The networked bit can strengthen the other 4 literacies, if projected onto them. E.g. my infostrats, based on social filtering, help determine signal, show what's going on in different areas, help decide what warrants attention etc.