When I think of a future with Open Social Media, I imagine three pillars.
1) Microblogging (ActivityPub), for sharing thoughts with strangers, ephemeral community building, and broad+global reach.
2) Forum / Stable Community (no good solution yet, AFAIK), for discussing, planning, buying/selling locally. All within a distinct group of people, membership of which can be managed.
3) Peer2Peer (Scuttlebutt?), for talking directly to friends, family, nearby people, and easily sharing files.
@zatnosk 2) Loomio? CommunityForge?
@strypey are either of those federated? If I have to make a new account for each community I am interested in, the barrier is too high.
@zatnosk I spoke to Matt Slater from #CommunityForge at Open 2018, and he is working on implementing #ActivityPub, so they can inter-operate with any mutual credit platforms that do the same. Federation is not a focus for the Loomio team. They're targeting a different use case I guess
@zatnosk Matt's ideas for using AP are more ambitious that just using them for the mutual credit communities too
http://matslats.net/activitypub-federate-communities