Since being on Lemmy I feel like I finally found a place I can consider more similar to my home on the web… I feel like this is the real decentralized web, not the next capitalism nightmare which is the so called “web3”…
Give me some guidance! How is the federation thing going? What are some cool projects I need to know about? I know Lemmy, Friendica, Matrix, Bookwyrm, Mastodon, but I’m sure there’s more!
Not federated, but distrubuted github https://radicle.xyz/
Internet is already federated, its just called peering instead?
What are some cool projects I need to know about?
Email, usenet
The whole workflow and philosophy of sourcehut is so different than GitHub though. I think a lot more people would be interested in GitHub, but federated.
There’s also this which some people may care about.
There’s also https://forgefed.org/
Forgejo is implementing federation
Interesting!
No dammit. I want my browsing activity mixed in with 5,000 other peoples. Am I logging in to my bank or yours? That’s the fun! Nobody knows!
Sometimes I don’t even know who I am while I’m browsing.
Why not give a crash course for OP? As I understand it, Federation is just one standard of protocol that can communicate across servers. I think OP is referring to Federated here as both the protocol and the movement away from platforms. I think this is a valid part of growing both Federated protocols, and protocols in general as an alternative to big-tech platforms. The major platforms DO offer hosting in a way. People host their photos libraries on Facebook and Instagram. So a non-platform alternative may interest some.
For hosting - get a private VPS and run your own cloud services. Explore RSS for news feeds, a super OG protocol that podcast feeds still use I think.
Web browsers shouldn’t be federated because the idea there is privacy, security, and ad blocking.
Web Browsers are all federated because they communicate with each other over a common standard.
You can probably host a feed reader & a few other things at home on old hardware & a budget. Paying $5 USD a month on hosting is too much for many people.
Federated Github? That’s… git.
Github is a forge with features like issues, pull requests, project planning, documentation, project sites, and automation, so not really.
There’s only like 20 some federated projects. I recommend you read into FOSS, self hosting, and Linux as this is what most of us are into and is along the same lines
federated browser
Do you mean something like CENO Browser and TOR Browser?
Didn’t know about CENO, it looks super cool! Might have to dig more into TOR as well
Ew.
We have federated countries
(well… its more like… confederated rather than federated ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
And there’s Brair there are Brair Public Forums. There is no censorship. But activity is quite dead. Expect to see a post every month, or longer.
I was interested, but I can’t click to visit any of the forums.
You have to create a Briar profile in the app, then go to “Request Forums” on the webpage copy paste their link and add them, and you also have to copy paste your link and put it on the webpage in the blank space where is says “Enter your Briar Link”
If you want decentralized private messaging see https://delta.chat
Since Git can already be federated (no MS GitHub required), take a look at Darcs & Pijul for a better version control model based on Patch Theory. Tooling needs help, but fundamentals are sound.
Everything in the XMPP world is worth checking out. Movim is one of the more interesting projects bring a social media option to the platform & pushing boundaries for clients that is cool to see—as well as Libervia for setting up communities.
Federated wikipedia : Ibis.
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Maybe search engines idk, something like Yucy?
Federated browsers
That’s literally just regular browsers, you can interact with any one of billions of webservers
Federated github
Git is federated by nature, you can add as many remotes as you wish and push/pull to all of them. Add in a mailing list for issue tracking and “pull requests” (patch submissions) and you’re golden. You can look up sourcehut to self-host a well-integrated combination of the two.
Federated hosting providers
Not sure what exactly you mean by this but maybe take a look at IPFS, although it’s more P2P then federation.
Federated internet
Internet is already fairly federated by nature - most commonly used protocols in the OSI stack are open and you can host your own components of critical infrastructure. Getting others to interact with them might be difficult due to security & privacy issues.
github is not just about git though.
Yep, but the rest can mostly be replaced with a mailing list. Or, if you’re allergic to email, there’s also https://forgejo.org/.
I’m not allergic to emails, I use them a lot, but I think a mailing list is not a federated github, but a mess.
Forgejo is a much better choice in my opinion.
