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morgandawncesperanzacesperanza posted: Snowflake day whatever
The last time we were disrupted we were worried about the fanworks - and we still are for art and video. But the network can communally host the art and video, and also the network can be collected and preserved via nomaic identity - I wouldn't mind losing "tumblr" as an interface but what I do mind losing is the NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS I've collected on tumblr, and all the PEOPLE I've followed. If we go to a nomadic system - one where you keep your identity and YOUR FOLLOWERS even as you MOVE--we won't have to do this scramble to recollect and refriend each other again.
ActivityPub allows you to choose the social media/blogging style of your choice--more DW/Tumblry with threaded comments at Hubzilla, more Twitter/shortformy at Mastedon, more YouTubey at PeerTube - but they ALL INTEROPERATE. So its as if from one feed I can friend you if you're at Pillowfort, DW, Tumblr, Twitter, or YouTube and whatever you post there will show up on my dash, and if I get into a fight where I'm housed or other disaster I can just collect my identity and followers and go somewhere else and STILL HAVE ALL OF YOU ON MY DASH when I get there. This is my understanding of what Federation/ActivityPub offers and why I'm behind it; beyond that, I'm interested in peer to peer hosting solutions that interoperate with that for art and video, so we can help our friends - the artists and vidders--make and share the work that we love!
Anyway people are working to fit this existing tech for fandom and to write clearer documentations and instructions and such, so stay tuned; hit_the_books has been doing Hubzilla/Federation updates at post_tumblr_fandom but I'll also always signal boost significant developments here....,