Solidarity and Subsidarity and the Open Social Web (opens in new tab)

A keen observation from Laurens, and the #OpenSocialWeb needs both of these: “If you read that statement with the fediverse and the atmosphere in mind, this is almost a diagram of the two ways the project can fail. Subsidiarity without solidarity is fragmentation: a thousand instances each guarding their own place, with no shared obligation or collaboration, with no place to maintain the commons that is the network itself. This is exactly what we see in the fediverse right now: sure there are...