FUNGiverse Tales
A blog to explore new metaphors and concepts for the Fediverse. I try to publish a new article every Sunday. Enjoy :)
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Solarpotterpunk, or: How the Harry Potter Fandom could acquire digital Agency through the Fediverse and its own unique features (fanfics+magic system)
(Creating your first instance for you and your friends … Image by @simzart on tumblr.com) I think that one of the greatest assets behind the Fediverse is for communities to reach a new level of digital agency. Currently, many communities on the web are bound by their digital infrastructure, for example to Discord or in…
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Diagon Lemmy is now live!
This week I started a new, possibly huge project that will take much of my time: my own Lemmy instance. It’s Harry Potter-themed and hopefully, will carve the way for more Harry Potter in the Fediverse! Because of that, I will most likely be unable to invest as much time on this blog as the…
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web4 – The Second End of History?
“Dare to Think!”– Immanuel Kant TL;DR: The internet’s evolution mirrors historical societal development. Transitioning from web2 to the social web and ultimately to web4 signifies a transformative shift akin to the end of the Middle Ages and the dawn of modernity, with the ultimate goal of achieving liberal democracy. In the style of the Dot…
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Embrace, Extend, Enforce (ƎƎƎ): A practical Strategy against potentially abusive Instances like Meta’s Threads
TL;DR: The common view on Meta’s Threads is that it will be either all good or all bad, leading to oversimplified and at the end contra productive propositions like the Fedipact. But in reality, it’s behaviour will most likely change dynamically over time, and therefore, to prevent us getting in a position, in which Threads…
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Castle in the Sky: Rise of Muska
Once upon a time there was a man called Muska … ever since he had been bullied at school, he had dreamed of flying to the moon … and so he took over the legendary castle in the sky, the flying island of Laputa … just because he had the money and the power ……
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The Hogwardization of the Web: How the Boom of Harry Potter and the WWW were closely linked and continue to influence one another
The Harry Potter franchise has been and remains a global cultural phenomenon for decades but has been considered trivial fiction without much cultural value since its creation and nothing much has changed about that. I want to argue that Harry Potter serves as an important if not central cultural institution that teaches people certain aspects…
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A new Type of Mastodon Signup that gives people a sense of Agency
TL;DR: The current Mastodon-signup is only removing the confusion of users on first glance, because it either hides the server-choice altogether, or leaves them with a choice that is impossible to make at this point of their Mastodon-journey. Instead, it should introduce them to decentrality on a lower scale, with a handful of handpicked servers…
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So he calls me up, and he’s like, “I still love you” (Fungi-Taylor Fanfic)
In the radiant city of Solaris, where towering skyscrapers glistened with solar panels and verdant rooftop gardens flourished, Taylor Swift, the fungal sensation, found herself entangled in a mycelial mess of love, revenge, and a shady ex named Fungus Fiasco. As Taylor prepared for her collaboration with SunbeamSeraph, she received a notification from the Fungiverse…
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Castle in the Sky – After the Fall
Once upon a time there was a man called Muska … ever since he had been bullied at school, he had dreamed of flying to the moon … and so he took over the legendary castle in the sky, the flying island of Laputa … just because he had the money and power … “Laputa…
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Arrival of the Meta Myzel – A Fungiverse Tale
When she woke up, she immediately sensed that something was wrong. She stumbled out of bed, went to the window and looked outside. Her heart almost stopped: it was even worse than she had expected. Chaos was unfolding all across her communities. She was seeing and feeling people running headless around the streets, panicking from…
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From Solarpunk to Fedipunk
Fueling a saturated movement with new energy Starting with the post that introduced Solarpunk 15 years ago¹, the literary and aesthetic movement has been gaining momentum in recent years, with its vision of a sustainable future powered by renewable energy. However, as renewable energy is getting more and more mainstream while many societal problem remain,…
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Breath Taker (A Fungiverse Tale)
Humans, their cringy problems and how I stopped to care (A Novella) ⠀“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.”⠀– Donna Haraway⠀ Spring “We don’t deserve this planet and yet, here…
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