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In fediverse terminology your idea would be for accounts to seamlessly hop between instances (which are usenet groups), and a lot of other people think that wou
by whatshisface 2y ago
In fediverse terminology your idea would be for accounts to seamlessly hop between instances (which are usenet groups), and a lot of other people think that would be a good change too. The only difficulty is engineering something where no individual server has authority over a login identity. It would all be so easy if browsers could sign POST requests with keypairs that the browser managed, but that's been resisted in web standards for decades.
- wkat4242 2y agoHmm no, I imagine they would stay on an instance (similar to the Usenet provider) and join groups or whatever they're called on mastodon, similar to the Usenet newsgroups. And then the moderators would come from the management of each group, independently from which instance they're on. There would be no central authentication necessary. Just some way for moderators to prove their ownership, perhaps some kind of public key. This way each group can do their own moderation. Of course some instances could decide not to carry some groups that go totally counter to them, but it should be a rare phenomenon. Similar to the old Usenet providers blocking binary groups (before that was the only thing Usenet was being used for anymore :) )