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title: The Social Commons

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# The Social Commons

The idea of multiple social networks is absurd. What we should have instead is a
single networking infrastructure that support multiple identities, formats, 
interaction methods, and moderation systems.

## Architecture Overview

The Bluesky infrastructure — Merkle repositories, IPLD, personal data servers,
self-certified all the things, large-scale aggregators/indexers — seems overall
solid.

This proposal is to use a different lexicon so that posts are tiles, knowing 
that tiles can produce other tiles and therefore become able to create new
social formats (that can then be filtered for by aggregators).

## Questions

- Who pays for aggregators and how are they kept honest?
- Who provides PDSs and how do we avoid capture (eg. by providing them free, tied
  to an existing identity service, etc.)?

## Capture Threat Model

- [ ] Which decisions does each component make?
- [ ] Who is affected by that decision?
- [ ] How can those who are affected have voice in the process?

## Todo

- [ ] Demo social networking with tiles

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<small>This work is part of [The Web Commons](/dFpEb1jeSrKp0Fx8IrdZAg).</small>
