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Probably as in you can move your account to another server seamlessly. Mastodon also relies on "centralised" servers; none of them are p2p
by botanical 3y ago
Probably as in you can move your account to another server seamlessly. Mastodon also relies on "centralised" servers; none of them are p2p
- agnosticmantis 3y agoIsn’t that federation?
- didntcheck 3y agoJust federated identity, like OpenID. It doesn't necessitate distributed systems with communicating backends, like Mastodon or Usenet, just that it allows the user to bring their own IdP and therefore to have "sovereignty" to verify their own identity across platforms. The alternate route is to have users cryptographically certify their registrations post-hoc, e.g. Keybase