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Some talk on Gemspace now about hip people invading. Said the most beeblebroxian people ever…
I mean, I get it. We all like small rooms. Small rooms are good. But when tech compentency, or early-bird-ism, or “squareness”, becomes the key, it’s easy to get stranded with kind of wack peeps inside that small room.
We want another kind of key. Or, rather, not rooms at all. It’s the “room model” that’s borked. Especially when the rooms get too crowded, when it’s like at a party and 200 people tries to squeeze into the kitchen to be able to talk to the cool ones.
This:
The rightmost of those three images for the win.
I wanna hang out with some people I like, who I think are cool. I.e. who I trust, and like talking to. Then those can, in turn, appreciate some other people who in my own estimation are quite dorky, that’s fine by me. They have lives of their own.
Popularity is not a good goal:
But accessibility can be a fine goal for software.
Welcomingness can be a fine goal.
Inclusiveness can be a fine goal.
A “Welcome” mat, and a warm cuppa can be a fine goal.
And, a scalable system is set up to handle that. Where it’s easy to follow and unfollow whomever we want. (As I’ve said before: for company, as opposed to for audience.)
A month or so after I had just gotten on Gemini, some pretty bad eggs joined up, and I started complaining about the September that never ended. (I watch the clouds go sailing. I watch the clock and sun.) Ironic in hindsight since I myself was pretty new, only having been on Gemini for a few weeks.
There are a handful of people on Gemini already that I really really like♥
But there is also very many people who I, uh, who I have a hard time with. Some pretty awful things have happened already in Gemini’s history.
I’m happy that we are seeing more women join Gemspace now, as an example of something good that is changing and hopefully will change more.
And all the people in the town where we live say “She’s not quite right. She don’t fit in with a small town.” They just can’t understand why she’s doesn’t stay in hospital. In a darkened room, it’s for their lives only she cries. Liza Radley: see her jump through loneliness. Liza Radley, take me when you go!
I spend the best and most rewarding Internet-time on email or chatting with just one or two people on Jabber, IRC, over phone or on video chat. That’s when I’m happy, when I’m emailing with someone who Gets It. I had a four hour long mail (fifty emails or so) convo with someone yesterday and it was a convo that made me très happy.
I wrote Schapcom to give me the CAPCOM of my dreams. Instead of the centralized model of current CAPCOM, it’s more of an, uh… It’s kind of a shared CAPCOM!
So it’s like the room model in that a couple of friends can join together and pool which logs they wanna follow.
It’s unlike the room model in that, uh… let’s say Alice, Bob, Carol and Ted all follow some logs.
Maybe Alice and Ted have completely opposite taste. So Alice pools her follows with Bob and Carol, while Ted also does that. Bob, a voracious reader, maybe happily pools with all four. Carol can’t stand the feud between Alice and Ted but she likes what Bob has brought to the table so she pools her follows with just Bob.
So if Alice has selected feeds 1, 2, 3 and 4,
Bob the feeds 2, 3, 5 and 7,
Carol the feeds 5, 6 and 8,
and Ted the feeds 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
Then Alice (who pools with Bob and Carol) would see everything except 9.
Bob, who pools with all, would see all nine feeds.
Carol, who pools with just Bob, would see 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Ted (who pools with Bob and Carol) would see everything except 1 and 4.
