Damus
jb55 · 2d
running a mastodon node was absolutely retarded. I tried to build my own activitypub node and failed because the protocol was so bad. Then I realized everyone would need to run a node to gain sovereig...
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Would you say the same about Email servers if they had sovereign Identity (regardless of how is that identity sovereign)? Would you say the same about Nostr image hosting solutions? I know ActivityPub is not a perfect protocol, but just assume the identity wasn't tied to the server, would that be so bad?
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jb55 · 2d
it would just be nostr with a well defined outbox model, so it wouldn’t be bad
weev · 2d
This is a manipulatively framed question. Mastodon, today, claims to be decentralized. It explicitly says “decentralized social media platform.” In actuality, Mastodon is extremely centralized (domain names are a point of centralization, even if they didn’t intend to censor or manipulative the...