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This is a sobering and important read for all of us who care deeply about the future of democracy, free speech and power – that is: the future of the internet – and think that federation is the way to go to secure it.
He has some very compelling arguments for why it's not. At the same time his reassurance that it's not even needed doesn't seem very sound.
So, then, what is the solution?
Please read and think carefully about this. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
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@forteller I've read that post before; I wasn't convinced then, and I wasn't convinced now.
Federated servers aren't limited to supporting only one protocol forever and ever. Protocols can be upgraded based on proven capabilities; Mastodon did this when adding ActivityPub support in 1.6, and then deprecating private messaging over OStatus in 2.0.
And if he's right and the federated approach turns out to be a hindrance?
Then we fast forward to the end goal that is peer2peer networks.
