#TheWateringHole
This essay is a good piece about how social media federation needs to evolve, based on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. It's basically a reflection on the commons we humans create.
#FederatedSocialPlatforms #HumanCommons #TheWateringHole #HumaneRights
I read the whole encyclical on a plane then I read @laurenshof.online on the encyclical's implications for decentralized networks on a different plane and Laurens is of course extremely good, and between planes the Hallgrimskirkja did me in. A truly odd time.

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FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation
This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.
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June 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
"Practice rituals & don't be afraid of rituals" -- no'u #literarystartup #thewateringhole #AWP17
November 22, 2024 at 12:27 PM