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What happened with Facebook is a great example on why federation is the future (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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lemmy.ml is down? No problem! lemmygrad.ml is still online! In the Fediverse, the "single point of failure" is the internet itself.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Just to amplify this: the fediverse is not the cure-all its louder proponents seem to claim.

And again, just to remind people, I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts and I do have accounts on Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and others. I'm a committed user, just not an ideologue.

If lemmy.ml goes down, the fact that lemmygrad.ml is still running is not a solution for me. I don't have an account there. If mastodon.online goes down, the fact that ... say ... tabletop.social is still running is meaningless. My identity is on mastodon.online.

If the very identity could be somehow federated, this would be a different story, naturally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for elaborating my point.

It's sad that Zot, the only protocol that supports nomadic identity, is rather unpopular in comparison with ActivityPub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Standardizing on fedi capabilities is something that needs to happen at the SocialHub community, by writing and agreeing on a Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP) for it. SocialHub is the place for technologists who build the fediverse. Unfortunately there's little focus on evolving the protocols and open standards, as most federated app devs spend their time in their own projects. I encourage anyone interested in fedi building to join as SocialHub member.