Fediverse Archetypes
⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux
This document is a distillation of the I did on the .
This analysis is meant to be descriptive. I.e., it is trying to list out what is there. It is not a statement of what should or shouldn't be there. And neither is it an endorsement or a condemnation of anything that is there. It is description of what seems to be observed.
⚠️ This document tries to use "neutral" language in its descriptions. ⚠️
Archetypes
🠶 archetypes (noun): an idealized model of a number of similar things.
From the point-of-view of — a is a model of some aspect of a person shared among many people.
(UX people tend to call "archetypes": "personas". And marketers tend to call "archetypes": "segments". In practice, all 3 of these are very similar concepts.)
Some examples of (non-Fediverse specific) archetypes include:
- father,
- mother,
- son,
- daughter
- brother,
- sister,
- husband,
- wife,
- gardener,
- farmer,
- computer programmer,
- grocery store cashier,
- CEO
- CTO
- etc.
You can also probably already see that an individual could express more than one archetype. For example — a single individual could be — a father, a husband, a brother, a son, a CTO, and a programmer at the same time during a certain span of their life.
The archetypes an individual expresses could also change over their life-time too. For example — before someone has a child, they wouldn't be a father or a mother yet; but after they have a child, they would (also) become a father, or a mother (in addition to whatever other archetypes they express).
This document includes archetypes relevant to the Fediverse that the author(s) have deemed "important" for a particular purpose.
Table of Content
Here are the list of archetypes we found that were relevant to the Fediverse.