Post #3241142

2023-03-18 22:48 UTC

@davew@mastodon.social Nice to see you too Dave!! Ironically unless this is solved there will be a constant gravitational pull toward everyone just being on one mega instance because the experience will be so much easier. And with players like Meta circling they'll have a distinct advantage. Somehow we need to find ways to fortify the many independent instances that exist today and one of the ways to do that is to make it easier for them to collectively provide a great user experience.

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@j3j5@hachyderm.io 2023-03-18 22:57

@mike@flipboard.social @davew@mastodon.social Ironically (in my mind anyway) this is solved by not using the official site for your instance and using a client (web or mobile). The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that the future is a headless mastodon (or whatever fediverse sw you want to use) and a client that handles all of this for you.

Open ##3241143
@davew@mastodon.social 2023-03-19 14:47

@mike@flipboard.social we already have a really good federated identity system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System why shouldn't we build on that, every user with their own identity provided by DNS. i asked the folks at Tucows to do this a few years ago. i wanted to use DNS for documents. they would have started a business selling sub-domains. and there's no reason every new experiment requires an identity system. and it should also come with storage, that the user pays for.

Open ##3241144
@kidehen@mastodon.social 2023-03-19 16:24

@davew@mastodon.social @mike@flipboard.social, There’s a vulnerability in plain sight right now, based on @Mastodon@mastodon.social not supporting the Client-Server aspect of #ActivityPub. Net is effect: Clients are Mastodon-specific rather than ActivityPub based (what the #Fediverse is supposed to be about). As you know, this is how the beginning of the end starts, since there’s no longterm protection from open standard compliance.

Open ##4262203