Comment on Exploding Heads Migration Paths

logen@exploding-heads.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Federation is overrated. It sounds like a good idea, but it’s terrible in practice. I miss p2p. I guess we call that “distributed” now.

I know BDFL isn’t ideal, but if it’s based on FOSS, we’re good.

Take basic forum software, if shit goes sour, the community can always spin up a new one and migrate. Sure, you don’t get the greater web all mingling in the same place as is the case with federation (kinda) and reddit.

But really, why do we need the rest of the world? We can each have our own corner, sure, the circlejerk effect is real, but it’s also fun. If we want other opinions we can go visit those other people in their space. And, of course, there’s always the giant monolths of X, Facebook, Reddit, what have you.

No real need to have everyone be part of the same instance, federation, or whatever.

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