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Is decentralised federated social media over engineered? (hachyderm.io)
submitted 9 months ago by maegul@hachyderm.io to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@Aatube @1984 @mindlight @maegul@lemmy.ml

Yea I don’t know the best approach to that. Either a separate server for managing IDs. Or you always a principal server that manages authentication for its platform and others within the trusted “circle”. And then, should the principal server fail, you can switch to another server as your principal. Hubzilla/Streams has some process like that AFAIK.

[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 1 points 9 months ago

@Aatube @1984 @mindlight @maegul@lemmy.ml

The key idea is that you can have a single unified identity on all the platforms you want. Signing into multiple platforms doesn’t require a new account every time. And cross posting from one platform to another, under your single identity is easy from every platform.

Then leveraging those features (and an open API), a good unifying client will make that easy.

There must be a way of doing that without fatal security issues or decentralisation.