Solidarity and Subsidarity and the Open Social Web

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 a lot of servers, but the collaboration between instances on things like moderation is virtually nonexistent. There is no form of federated diplomacy, or even a mental framework on how servers should interact, besides defederation when you get too annoyed with another server.

Solidarity without subsidiarity is the benevolent provider of infrastructure: one big network that takes care of everyone and quietly removes their agency.”

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/