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This is what the whole IndieWeb movement is about -- being distributed rather than merely federated. I'm mildly concerned that the two camps seem to be building
by chipotle_coyote 8y ago
This is what the whole IndieWeb movement is about -- being distributed rather than merely federated. I'm mildly concerned that the two camps seem to be building their own protocols rather than working together (excepting the existence of Bridgy Fed, perhaps).
- toomim 8y agoGood point -- it would actually be simple to combine IndieWeb + Mastadon and solve this problem. IndieWeb's solution is to own your own domain: https://indieweb.org/personal-domain https://indieweb.org/personal-domain. If you control your DNS, you can move your data to a different back-end provider and just update your DNS entries. To combine this with Mastadon, just make your own domain, like https://chipotle.coyote https://chipotle.coyote, and point it at Mastadon-Server-A. Then if you want to move everything to Mastadon-Server-B, just copy the data and update DNS.
- type0 8y agoI agree with you but for the general social medial user updating the DNS records sounds scary and complicated. And for such user even if the idea of owning their own domain might sound compelling, how many will simply forged to renew the domain, be done with it and move to the next facebook.
- danShumway 8y agoI'm not sure it does solve the problem. Extreme example, but when you die, won't your domain registration lapse? And you can argue that doesn't matter at that point, but it kind of does if I want to be able to use a social network for something like collective scrapbooking or time capsules. Or even just if I want to make sure that essays, projects, and Open Source work are permanently accessible to people who care about them.
- wmf 8y agoMaybe you could bequeath it to the Internet Archive, although they may not be willing to pay the registration fees.
- drexlspivey 8y agoThere is an open github issue with some discussion on this https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/2668 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/2668
- toomim 8y agoGood find! Thanks!
- kickscondor 8y agoCompetition is good, right? Personally, I'm sold on the Indieweb tech, but if ActivityPub proves itself, then that's great, too.
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoCompetition is good, but cooperation is also good, and protocols benefit enormously from network effects. (No pun on network protocols intended.) I suppose this isn't zero sum, though, strictly speaking.