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| - | ===== Social Networking WG Meeting 2025-06-07 ===== | + | ====== Social Networking WG Meeting 2025-09-21 ====== |
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| * ability to sign-up using conventional email / mobile AND sign-up in a blackout | * ability to sign-up using conventional email / mobile AND sign-up in a blackout | ||
| * pathways to find things: connect with familiar groups and interests, discovery | * pathways to find things: connect with familiar groups and interests, discovery | ||
| - | * first-time user experience and appearance | + | * first-time user experience and appearance |
| * account management capabilities for individuals and admin (password change and reset is possible; security is not overwhelming or obstacles) | * account management capabilities for individuals and admin (password change and reset is possible; security is not overwhelming or obstacles) | ||
| * stewardship, | * stewardship, | ||
| + | **Other challenges** to consider: | ||
| + | * visibility of critical announcements | ||
| + | * identifying and managing accounts to disseminate official announcements | ||
| + | * legalities such as age restrictions | ||
| + | * user privacy, management of user data per Australian Privacy Principles | ||
| + | * tendency towards lurking rather than active content creation | ||
| + | * what else? | ||
| + | **Tools and technologies** should be considered widely; social media is not necessarily the answer. Technologies people are familiar with, and which could have a role to play include: | ||
| + | * Email (but now highly dependent on centralised services from e.g. Gmail, Microsoft) | ||
| + | * Messaging (Signal, telegram, etc.) - addresses many of the use cases posed so far | ||
| + | * Bulletin boards (but appearance tends to be old fashioned - offputting? - and not natively federated | ||
| + | * Decentralised social media | ||
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| + | Needs to be FOSS, standards-based, | ||
| - | ==== Level 3 Headline ==== | ||