Mobilizon team got new funding, which changes and fixes would you like?

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Something that is kind of a broad suggestion but it keeps bubbling up in my mind is the potential for some of these fediverse social platforms to be well situated to function as community knowledge bases.

  To put it another way, why are these fediverse softwares restricted to sharing and federating content along the axis of time?

  The thing I value most about reddit-like/internet forum like communities is they provide an amazing context to learn new things, especially things you didn’t even know you didn’t know.

  At this point in time we are still stuck seeing social media as a goal unto itself, you interact online socially because you desire to interact online socially. This is all well and good, but similar to how Mobilizon helps facilitate that connection growing into something meaningful in the real world (events you can attend!) I am interested in ways in which fediverse software can be designed to help facilitate organically building community knowledge bases out of online social interaction.

  As to what that specifically looks like, well… I guess I am suggesting some kind of wiki-like system and I know that isn’t a new suggestion but I think people mistakenly see this kind of feature request as mission creep rather than a natural next step for burgeoning communities of niche experts who could solidify that sense of place into a real beacon for the internet on that topic by collating conversations into community posts of information and links. Specifically I think it would be fascinating to have a wiki like database where the source links for information stated on the wiki are sourced back to comments/conversations in threads on that community (which would source to external sources of course)… I think it would make the entire process of communities producing a formalized organized knowledge base much more transparent, organic and frictionless.

  To put it another way, I challenge the Mobilizon team to think about “whats next?” after you make an event and connect people, what is the intended impact? I think the next step is to create a natural platform for both interaction/events and knowledge where conversations about events can naturally evolve into more formalized posts of information through whatever community mechanisms best fit that particular community. Events and interaction feed into knowledge and vice versa, as of yet no social media corporation or community project has effectively grasped this as the central dynamo that powers online communities people actually value. I think Mobilizon because it is positioned as an event organizer for the fediverse is in someways uniquely situated to navigate that connection point successfully and show people what social media can really become if we see it as more than just cigarettes but for your smartphone.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Piefed has a built-in wiki system for communities

    !fediverse@piefed.social for an example

    @Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      oh heck yes!

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