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There are other decentralized social networks (mostly up and coming) that run on distributed networks that aren't as brittle. For example, a network of nodes t
by olah_1 6y ago
There are other decentralized social networks (mostly up and coming) that run on distributed networks that aren't as brittle.
For example, a network of nodes that balance all traffic rather than a network of independent servers that federate.
- tuukkao 6y agoThat looks nice. Let's get back to this once any of those services has reached the kind of maturity that a non-techie is willing to sign up and start building their network. I have no idea what needs to happen for that to become the reality, though.
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- olah_1 6y ago> once any of those services has reached the kind of maturity that a non-techie is willing to sign up and start building their network Has the fediverse reached that level of maturity? A single distributed network is more like twitter, instagram, or telegram. A federated network necessitates teaching about home servers, blacklists, server outages, etc. I've heard from people that work on Activity Pub though that they are moving towards making things function in a more distributed way (portable accounts for example). So things seem to be converging in that direction regardless.