I’ve been thinking lately about what federation might look like in academic publishing. Publishing of academic research is currently a rather archaic system that serves to exploit the labor of researchers and academics, primarily for the financial gain of a few very large publishers. There have been some efforts to retake the publishing infrastructure and create scholar owned systems with varying degrees of success. Would the fediverse enable greater success in such an initiative or would it not make sense in this context?
But things like this would allow individual research groups to circumvent other systems they are now prescribed to used, and with lack of alternatives also MUST use to get exposure. I’ll react separately to the main post, as there are already some efforts in this direction.