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Thanks for your hard work Ash, and sorry to hear about your loved one. As much as I love the Fediverse, I think the culture leans toward instances that are too
by anderspitman 4y ago
Thanks for your hard work Ash, and sorry to hear about your loved one.
As much as I love the Fediverse, I think the culture leans toward instances that are too big. I think the number of people on each instance should be much closer to 1 than 1000.
The problem is self-hosting is too difficult for the average person. But that doesn't have to be the case. Self-hosting shouldn't be any more complicated or less secure than installing an app on your phone. You shouldn't need to understand DNS, TLS, NAT, HTTP, TCP, UDP, etc, etc. Domain names shouldn't be any more difficult to buy or use than phone numbers. Apps should be sandboxed in KVM/WHPX/HVP-accelerated virtual machines that run on Windows, Mac, and Linux and are secure-by-default. Tunneling out to the public internet should be a quick OAuth flow that lets you connect a given app to a specific subdomain, with TLS certs automatically obtained from Let's Encrypt and stored locally for end-to-end encryption.
- rtpg 4y agoI think part of it is there are instances that are just sooooo broad. Mastodon.social … shouldn’t exist? I think. It’s too broad and kinda duplicates the general social network issues of everyone using the thing. Meanwhile there are loads of three-digit-user instances that are more focused (and have less problems on a tech level, and on a social level)
- Kye 4y agoI think the project instances exist so people will at least get on board, try it, figure it out, and move on to a more suitable instance rather than abandon the whole thing entirely. The alternative is losing lots of potential users at the front door.
- wan_ala 4y agoHonestly I think some big issues are that not everyone has a fast machine thats going to be up all the time to host the instance. It would be cool to implement something like BitTorrent but for websites.
- Self-Perfection 4y agoZeronet kind of do this
- abustamam 4y agoIsn't that what IPFS aims to be? https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/
- rglullis 4y agoNo. IPFS is only to shared static content, and it has no access controls.
- kixiQu 4y agohypercore :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_(web_browser) https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/ https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/
- wan_ala 4y agoThanks, I have never heard of that!