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Is the web federated? Everyone hosts their own sites and there are several browsers -- I don't see why we can't have a social media version of this.
by michaelpinto 14y ago
Is the web federated? Everyone hosts their own sites and there are several browsers -- I don't see why we can't have a social media version of this.
- rabidsnail 14y agoWho gets to host #beiberfever? You can build a distributed system that has hashtags (ex: by using a DHT to map tags to lists of nodes that act as clearinghouse for messages with those tags) but that system is not the web.
- lloeki 14y agoThe web is not "federated": site A does not communicate with site B. Contrast with SMTP or XMPP which require federated servers to communicate with one another to establish dialog between two users. All of them are decentralized though.
- rhizome 14y agoThe routers do, though. Through BGP, AS's communicate location information to the routing infrastructure of other AS's. 15 years ago we saw the decline of "everybody knows everything" as the routing tables of core infrastructure simply became too unwieldy.