Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?
Can’t get this brain fart out of my head.
What would the simplest, FOSS, alternative look like and would it be worth it?
Quick thoughts:
* FOSS platforms intended to be big single servers, but dedicated to …
* Shared/Single Sign On
* Easy cross posting
* Enabling and building universal Multi-platform clients.
* Unlike email, supporting small servers
No duplication/federation/protocol required, just software.
@maegul @joeldebruijn clients would also have an option to send new blog entries to your own server. this would allow for a seamless UI not too different from Mastodon clients, but simpler and less cluttered of course.
everything properly defined in a protocol as simple as possible so there can be as many implementations of clients and servers as there are RSS readers.
@strife @joeldebruijn
Yea this is the essence of the idea. Strip down the interop requirements as much as possible, relying on existing tech as much as possible, and allow software and norms to solve all the other problems, where, TBF, it seems that software is doing all the heavy lifting in the fediverse anyway, but also has to handle federation and the protocol.
@maegul @joeldebruijn yeah servers of this protocol should be much simpler than mastodon. just exposing a file per blog, with all the posts entries that clients can fetch. no cross-server communications like AP, just clients requesting the feed file to servers.
have some simple authentication to let clients comment on entries of the feed, thus adding them. it would need to have some moderation system for that, tho.
and another authentication for the blog owners to push new blog entries and add them to the top of the feed.
although for the federated identities for comments to work, it would probably need some kind of public key system to verify identities, idk.