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Nobody cares about decentralization until they do (2024)

• ranger_danger 1y ago
  > Mastodon and the broader ActivityPub (AP) network offer little hope here. Everything lived on that server. > we don't all run our own copy of the entire stack Why can't we do just that in a user-friendly way? What if every user had all their content stored locally on a (or multiple) device, whether that's their phone, a desktop, server, anything, just something that keeps a local copy of their data and then federates that with other servers... that way they can always easily move wherever they want, and the data is still visible from some other server so they don't have to run their own.
  • Kye 1y ago
    There are apps in development for AT that do this. I just wish I could remember any of their names. There's a backup tool but it's not quite the same: https://bsky.app/profile/storacha.network/post/3lrgja7t6uc24 https://bsky.app/profile/storacha.network/post/3lrgja7t6uc24 I don't know what keeps this from happening with AP.
  • skybrian 1y ago
    You can back it up, but how do you restore it? are there ActivityPub servers that let you backfill posts? And since the unique id of the post is a URL, any references would break if you moved the post.
• shellkr 1y ago
  One of the great things with Mastodon is that in case of your instance shutting down you can just move to another one. I have moved from Mastodon -> Firefish -> Mastodon without issue. In the case of Firefish the instance shut down... So I do not follow your point.
• blitzar 1y ago
  > Nobody cares about decentralization until they do ... and then they, rounded to the nearest meaningful whole percentage point of the population, still don't care.
• zuyduvestu 1y ago
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