And with enough federated servers in the network they could never hope to have the reach of things like Lemmy and Mastodon. Server costs would be massively spread out instead of reliant on one corporation.
pretty much. never underestimate the will of the at home datacentre crowd, with muliple last gen enterprise servers, decades of sysadmin experience and business+ class internet connections to feed their tech addiction.
I expect a nice little swarm of small to medium capacity instances popping up hidden behind cloud load balancers and Tor onion services very soon.
this cant replace a near boundless elastic cloud setup, but it is much more in line with the ethos I am down with and should provide some of what we need to keep things going.
thats ok, big tech cant really make money off this anyway, the proof is in the pudding, just let us run our space, go throw some crap on billboards and on our video streams. its insane we need brokers and gatekeepers for simple formatted text messages.
I could see a corp like Microsoft or Google or someone else seeing long term value in federated services. They could create a service utilizing the technology and spread it to their user base. Slowly add in some special sauce to their own version of it to attract more people to their part of it. Then break compatibility with everything else to stop someone from stealing users back.
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And with enough federated servers in the network they could never hope to have the reach of things like Lemmy and Mastodon. Server costs would be massively spread out instead of reliant on one corporation.
It’s even possible to run it on old PC that wasn’t used long ago, so everything will be good as long as community exist
pretty much. never underestimate the will of the at home datacentre crowd, with muliple last gen enterprise servers, decades of sysadmin experience and business+ class internet connections to feed their tech addiction.
I expect a nice little swarm of small to medium capacity instances popping up hidden behind cloud load balancers and Tor onion services very soon.
this cant replace a near boundless elastic cloud setup, but it is much more in line with the ethos I am down with and should provide some of what we need to keep things going.
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thats ok, big tech cant really make money off this anyway, the proof is in the pudding, just let us run our space, go throw some crap on billboards and on our video streams. its insane we need brokers and gatekeepers for simple formatted text messages.
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Be careful with that thinking. That way can lead to complacency. Big tech loves embrace, extend, extinguish
I could see a corp like Microsoft or Google or someone else seeing long term value in federated services. They could create a service utilizing the technology and spread it to their user base. Slowly add in some special sauce to their own version of it to attract more people to their part of it. Then break compatibility with everything else to stop someone from stealing users back.
I think Meta is doing something with ActivityPub
Looks like they smell blood in the water with Twitter’s downward spiral.
That’s what you have to look out for. They will exploit anything they can get their hands on if they think there is money to be made.
How exactly is Meta’s new platform going to work? It’s still confusing me a bit.
once enough people are in they defederate from everything and then immediately start enshittifying until it becomes yet another big tech platform
They probably won’t even have to defederate. Become big enough that you can dictate the standards of federation in a way that profits you.