Convener: Ivan (@bonfire@indieweb.social)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• johanna (johannab@wandering.shop), johannab@cosocial.ca)
• Erin Kissane (@kissane@mas.to)
• mayel@sunbeam.city
• Ulrike Hahn
• Gilles Dutilh (@depemig@scicomm.xyz)

Tags / links to resources / technology discussed, related to this session:

Website: https://openscience.network

Notes

• The state of OSN governance is still in early stage, looking at sociocracy.
• Thinking to implement Arcipelago - whitelisted federation to ease the access for universities / institutions into the fedi.
• How Bonfire boundaries system can help having better online conversation.
• Content management systems and online social media.
• We discussed the desirability of a system of credentials, where people considered credible by others, in particular when those others re credible, are allowed a louder voice.

Selected notes from chat:

• Bonfire reply controls are so good.
• Interop question: are bonfires reply controls similar to gotosocials ones?
• We call them boundaries because they’re more about what you accept or not on your own instance rather than necessarily imposing what others can or can’t do on theirs, but yeah we’d like to interop by publishing metadata about what’s possible, though that’d not simple because you can set those controls per-circle or even per-user (not just one setting for everyone) and that metadata is private.
• Not forcing all scholarship/scholarly conversations into the mode of “public scholarship” seems crucially important to me, Ulrike, though I’m coming from humanities.
• Yes, there are many types of discourse we need.
• Super cool conversation; my biggest undergrad project was in designing open science networks so I’d love to pick up the thread on any efforts you are carrying forward from this. Unfortunately have to drop! Please email me at david@makeyourselfvisible.com if you have a contact/network list or anything like that, or want to connect.
• All content management systems are terrible UX wise!
• Although what a differentiator good academic UX would be!
• We were looking at prototyping an integration with http://plaudit.pub.
• I think some of the blockchain-ier (potentially non-derogatory) decentralized web folks are pretty far into reputation-based access, fwiw, mostly for things like managing network abuse and spam, for folks who are interested in that zone.
• I wonder if it’s useful to decouple official credentials from community/role-based standing? I suspect that there may be multiple non-overlapping ways to think about reputation. Old-school web forums sometimes found ways to flag accounts known for, for example, consistently providing really thoughtful commentary and feedback, totally separately from official identity.