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Is decentralised federated social media over engineered? (hachyderm.io)
submitted 9 months ago by maegul@hachyderm.io 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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[–] FinchHaven@sfba.social 1 points 9 months ago

@mindlight

"Essentially, for the users, it means that an account for site A can be used to login on site B because site A and site B trust each other"

And what if site B takes actions that no longer make it trustworthy to site A?

One more damn thing instance admins are going to have to monitor to prevent damage to their users

How about if we don't do "single sign on" and people just get over the "Mastodon is too harrddd!!!" trope?

Maybe?

Nah

That'll never happen

The "One Fediverse To Rule Them All" crowd is just too influential

cc @1984