Complete this sentence:

@smallcircles Cozy neighborhood within a bustling city.

Aside from a few Mastodon instances (two topical and one location-based), I haven't yet explored the rest, e.g. Lemmy, PeerTube, etc. even though I'm aware of their presence, which makes the Fediverse feel bigger than a village.

@smallcircles
A scattering of one-off housing built like the Hut on Fowl's Legs.

@smallcircles I'd probably say a city, but more wide than dense, and a bit like Morrowind's map if you have played it. In the beginning, all of it looks empty and locations become visible when you discover them. You'll find more and more people, interesting posts etc. Though if you have niche interests and those who share them (if they exist) haven't moved to the fediverse yet, you might still be talking to the void a lot.

@smallcircles @_elena Local pub full of software devs

@smallcircles Fedi feels like a permanently disrupted meeting in which everyone is shouting, trying to get everyone else to listen to Their Very Important Point

@smallcircles Liberated zone.

@Carl_Gylling oh yes, did I play Morrowind. Love the comparison, thanks

@smallcircles relatively quiet respite near the bathrooms at an overcrowded music festival when I can still hear the music from the stage but I'm not interested in the acts right now, and people are having semi private conversations around me that they've been wanting to have all day but waiting until they could hear each other, and the people chatting are here to see the same bands as me.

@octarine_wiggle I like that description, thanks.

@draNgNon that sounds a bit like influencer-style social media then. Is it a cacophony in a good way, or not? Would a Google+ like Circles functionality, such as Bonfire are bringing to the fediverse, bring solace?

@samvarma @_elena

In a "too much" or "now we can safely make geek jokes" kind of way?

@smallcircles I experience it as a web of interconnections that span the globe, and across my many intersecting and diverting interests.

@smallcircles "... mad scientist's urban planning experiment"

@smallcircles “I thought we were an autonomous collective.”

@maikel this is a very cool and relevant direction that explores new social networking use cases and areas, and where reflecting deeply on the social side of the equation will probably pay good divident when it comes to implementing the supportive technical side.

I posted the other day about the social networking direction I am most interested about, which requires healthy ecosystem and inclusive commons based collaboration.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116109998586728783

SX considers your applied research area to be exploring the Personal social networking paradigm, which in a more general sense also facilitate the notion of what it means to be "working in commons" on things that are "commons based".

Trust and safety are major concerns, I gather. I am not sure what is the status today, but the Open Hospitality Network at one point was investigating an ActivityPub based platform similar to CouchSurfing, where these aspects were also of key importance. @mariha hosts this community.

https://hospitality.network

@urbanfoxe @smallcircles Yeah we’re definitely due for the Gnab Gib.

@unattributed I like that imagery, thank you. That aligns with the notion of a peopleverse/ Forming a road network that connects the offline and online worlds.

@dodosan exciting, in a good way then?

@PrinceOfDenmark do the square quotes indicate we aren't there yet? A collective sounds to me like it is very tight-knit. Shouldn't it be plural?

@smallcircles Quoting Monty Python.