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> The app is codenamed P92 and will allow users to log in through their existing Instagram credentials So if it relies on the servers of one centralized entity
by usrbinbash 4y ago
> The app is codenamed P92 and will allow users to log in through their existing Instagram credentials
So if it relies on the servers of one centralized entity for authentication, how exactly is this thing "decentralized"?
- grugagag 4y agoIt’s decentralized in name only, it’s marketing talk. It’ll still be behind Meta’s walled garden
- Spivak 4y agoThey’re using the language of Discord/Slack were rather than one massive firehose where you curate who you follow you instead create “servers” for your friends, family, and different online communities. Social networks got supermassive scale, it ended up being kinda awful unless you’re a public figure, and now all the “good” communities are on Reddit and Discord.
- charcircuit 4y agoThe same way gmail is but with ActivityPub instead of email. You sign in with your Google account, but you can send emails to an email server run by anyone. For an example of decentralized servers + centralized authentication just look at video games. It's common to have a common identity, but be able to join a server hosted by anyone.
- usrbinbash 4y ago> decentralized servers + centralized authentication ...are not decentralized. De-centralized infrastructure doesn't have single authorities able to act as gatekeepers to basic functionality (such as authentication) of the infrastructure, period.
- foul 4y agoIn the best case it will speak ActivityPub as to embrace, extend and extinguish. Because all this effort is, imho obviously, an EEE tactic.
- rsolva 4y agoIt's just borrowing language that is hot right now, just like Discord telling you to "start your own server". Its not your own server and you do not own or control it.