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.

#fediverse
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[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are describing a different thing than what the idea of the fediverse is. Content is collected at an instance and these instances federate. That's why its called Fediverse: people basically form groups, these group federate. It's a social thing, there is trust involved. With blockchain, the idea is that you don't need to trust a central entity.

I think you talk about something like nostr.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't need to have the full trustless or buring energy for fun, but it does need to be resilient against instances going down, which currently isn't the case.

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I think thats just a thing that will get better over time