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Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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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.
@strife @joeldebruijn
Yea this is the essence of the idea. Strip down the interop requirements as much as possible, relying on existing tech as much as possible, and allow software and norms to solve all the other problems, where, TBF, it seems that software is doing all the heavy lifting in the fediverse anyway, but also has to handle federation and the protocol.