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Is decentralised federated social media over engineered? (hachyderm.io)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

Can't get this brain fart out of my head.

What would the simplest, FOSS, alternative look like and would it be worth it?

Quick thoughts:

* FOSS platforms intended to be big single servers, but dedicated to ...
* Shared/Single Sign On
* Easy cross posting
* Enabling and building universal Multi-platform clients.
* Unlike email, supporting small servers

No duplication/federation/protocol required, just software.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Maybe good old blogosphere with comments pingbacks and pubsubhub(?) was a sort of simpler proto version of the fediverse.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    @joeldebruijn

    Yep. Add a good aggregator client (hmmm, Google should make one) and you’re cooking.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is the Google thing a joke?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    @strife @joeldebruijn

    Yea this is the essence of the idea. Strip down the interop requirements as much as possible, relying on existing tech as much as possible, and allow software and norms to solve all the other problems, where, TBF, it seems that software is doing all the heavy lifting in the fediverse anyway, but also has to handle federation and the protocol.

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