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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@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Yea this is exactly what I was thinking about.

The idea being that there would be circles of trusted platforms and once you have an account with one you have an account on all of them. Which, I imagine, would allow easy/quick cross posting from one platform to another when desired and make it easier to build and maintain an aggregating client that allows you to view all the platforms within such a "circle of trust" that you're interested in through a unified interface.