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The biggest problem with federation is easily visible in e-mail: the server “owns” your address and therefore moving in very hard. It’s not much better than any
by api 3y ago
The biggest problem with federation is easily visible in e-mail: the server “owns” your address and therefore moving in very hard. It’s not much better than any other silo in that way. Mastodon is a bunch of small social sites in a trenchcoat.
There are ways to make identity floating and separate from the server, at least in theory, but ActivityPub (the protocol under Mastodon and many other things) does not implement anything like this.
- eropple 3y agoThis is one of the things that Bluesky's ATProto is trying to solve, and have been making steps towards it. We'll see if it gets there, but I find their thinking generally pretty persuasive.
- mariusor 3y ago> I find their thinking generally pretty persuasive Is it persuasive enough to have multiple implementations and multiple instances running? How many instances of blue sky are there running out there?