https://emsenn.net/tags/activity-pub/Recent content in Activity-Pub on emsenn.netHugoen-usThu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://emsenn.net/blog/learn-with-me-systems-emergence-and-standardization/Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://emsenn.net/blog/learn-with-me-systems-emergence-and-standardization/<p>I’ve been watching the fediverse slowly drift from a weird emergent ecosystem into something that is starting to look institutional: standards bodies, formal processes, corporate entries, “governance conversations.” Underneath all the politics and discourse, there’s a simple systems question I want to understand:</p> <p>What happens to <strong>emergence</strong> when a system gets <strong>standardized</strong>?</p> <p>“Emergence” here is not a mystical property. Think about the early fediverse: different codebases, different moderation norms, different experiments with identity, different kinds of sociality. It was noisy and uneven, but there was a lot of room for new things to appear. People built strange instances, new posting conventions, ad-hoc content flows. That’s emergence: local actors exploring a big configuration space.</p>