Here I want to mention one last development of Ibram’s experiments with the Fediverse, which emerged as a very interesting opportunity.
The great challenge is how to guide the transition from the centralized, proprietary environment to the decentralized environment, which establishes distributed responsibilities and an expanded role for institutions that promote access to knowledge.
In the last 2 years, we have conducted some experiments, and recently we have been in contact with Michael Foster from the NewsMast Foundation. It is an organization dedicated to developing the WebSocial, offering the possibility of creating community apps for organizations interested in exploring the Fediverse.
The app works integrated with WordPress and promotes community engagement based on a Mastodon instance. In other words, through the partnership with the NewsMast Foundation, Ibram plans to boost the strategy of occupying the Fediverse by Brazilian museums.
Michael Foster, who is part of the project, often says that the Fediverse is an environment determined by technology, where everything starts with a server or even a protocol. However, this is not the case for people in general or communities in general. For communities and people, especially in Brazil, social spaces start with an app.
