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agree. federation doesn't seem to have been the initial plan of the internet. some sort of POSSE with content-agnostic subscribing mechanism would be far better
by buboard 7y ago
agree. federation doesn't seem to have been the initial plan of the internet. some sort of POSSE with content-agnostic subscribing mechanism would be far better. (and yes that subscription mechanism could be in a blockchain acting as a discoverability mechanism and a backup).
- athenot 7y agoNNTP (newsgroups) and SMTP (email) both are federated systems. Long before domain names were convenience identifiers for just websites, you would be part of an organizational domain, be it your company, your university or your local ISP (before the advent of large national consumer providers). Those were much more than just a pipe to the larger internet, they would run applications which you would use, and which federated to other organizations.
- buboard 7y agoi guess there is a difference between "dumb" federation the way nntp/smtp does it and e.g. matrix where account data and subscriptions are kept in the servers.
- TheCycoONE 7y agoI don't follow. In what sense does SMTP have 'dumb' servers? Account data is definitely on the mail server.