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Federation and decentralisation will always hold merit as concepts—however, IMO, the solutions like ActivityPub won't. Scaling is the big issue that most soluti
by hammyhavoc 1y ago
Federation and decentralisation will always hold merit as concepts—however, IMO, the solutions like ActivityPub won't. Scaling is the big issue that most solutions I've seen tend to struggle with. What works with a few million users doesn't necessarily still work acceptably or reliably as you get into larger figures.
- rglullis 1y agoActivityPub just needs a few tweaks, none of them difficult to implement: 1. Adopt some DID method for actor resolution (to make it easy to port identities around) 2. Add a "strict mode" where documents are only accepted if properly signed (so that servers no longer are the authoritative source) 3. Leverage content-addressable systems (IPFS, torrents + magnet links) to serve media and documents (so that even if one server goes down, the data can be fetched in the Fediverse itself) That's it, really. The main problem is social: item (2) would bring non-repudiation (anything you write would be undeniably yours) and most people would be concerned about participating in a social network where anything you publish is recorded forever.