Strypey tooted about Perspect3vism, a Web3 company who are developing:
AD4M
The Agent-Centric Distributed Application Meta-ontology or just: Agent-Centric DApp Meta-ontology
- A new meta-ontology for interoperable, decentralized application design
- A spanning-layer to enable seamless integration between Holochain DNAs, blockchains, linked-data structures/ontologies and centralized back-ends
- The basis for turning distinct, monolithic and siloed apps into a global, open and interoperable sense-making network
Though I’m very critical about much of the Web3 space, and deliberately staying well away from it (perfectly happy to be a late majority if any technologies find real adoption), there is something in that Web3 projects do way better than Fediverse projects in general:
- Thinking way out of the box, in radically innovative new directions.
- Productizing their project websites to communicate their vision.
Founder of Perspect3vism is the former tech lead of Holochain Nicolas Luck, and while the website is very buzzword-laden its main message of a new “Human to Human” (H2H) web is I think very inspiring and the overall direction sure is visionary. If we look at features:
Perspect3vism User Features
- No more middle men: Direct and create your own web experiences
- Personalised perspectives: Say goodbye to apps and websites and say hello to your own hyper-personalised Perspectives.
- Self-organise your community: Decide your own rules and standards for coming together.
- Own your media: Retain ownership of your data and online life.
- Drop the silos: All Perspectives are highly interoperable and can ‘talk to each other’.
- Interoperable accounts: Decentralised Digital Identifiers (DIDs), access to multiple web experiences via single log-on.
We can see some overlap and alignment to Fediverse, but also this going well beyond in innovation and ambition. Same is true for their social platform project Flux:
Flux: A social toolkit for the new internet
Create your own decentralized community.
Holistic social infrastructure: Flux interacts with a complete agent centric ontology for social communication agnostic to backend. This allows us greater flexibilty and composability without being technologically restricted.
Decentralized: All communication is completely P2P & decentralized. This protects you from authorities snooping on your conversations whilst also protecting you from censorship and control. You own the experience and data, take charge!
Highly customizable: Each interface element of Flux is made of modular components conforming to a common interface. This allows flux to be highly composable suiting your style, needs or curiosities.
Web3 Integrations: Flux is built to be ready for Web3 with integration to your favourite platforms. Easily leverage Flux as a contact list for crypto payments.. Or import proof of asset ownership and leverage for permission management & flexing
Distributed Governance: Integrate with existing DAO tools to build consensus within your community with greater transparency and cohesion.
Asset ownership: Collectively manage community treasuries to build your empire. Charge entry fees for joining communities and deploy these funds as you see best!
There’s a bunch of Web3 takes and terminology that I generally dislike. But again there’s a kind of “completeness of vision” shining through that is generally lacking on the Fediverse. I also feel resistance to the way that monetization is done in Web3 (Wild-West nature of the technology landscape being the cause), but having the option to design sustainable revenue models is a plus. And also monetary incentives (“I want to earn some income from my content creation / my own work”) are attractors of people to these platforms.
All in all more common vision on the Fediverse would be a boon, imho. The creator of Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers puts it well in this HN comment:
Has any social network ever focused on users well-being and been successful? I think it’s not criticism but an interesting idea.
I too, am curious. It seems like Mastodon and other federated networks definitely have user well being and autonomy as a goal. However, for whatever reason, most of the more popular federated networks seem to aspire to be “X, but federated” instead of having drastically different user experiences.