Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

maegul@hachyderm.io to Fediverse@lemmy.ml – 15 points –

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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Maybe good old blogosphere with comments pingbacks and pubsubhub(?) was a sort of simpler proto version of the fediverse.

@joeldebruijn

Yep. Add a good aggregator client (hmmm, Google should make one) and you’re cooking.

Is the Google thing a joke?

Yeah, RIP Reader

Yea this. Also a reference to how many believe (and not wrongly IMO) that the death of Google reader put the internet backwards or sent it down a darker path than necessary.

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