Over the years, I've had a bunch of ideas on how to move the Fediverse forward. This article highlights the culmination of what I'd like to build.

I’ve been on the Fediverse for nearly 15 years now. I’ve seen platforms grow, change, and evolve, and I’ve taken inspiration from projects that have a lot of really good ideas.

This is a conceptual pitch / brain droppings on Postmodern, the Fediverse platform I hope to eventually build.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I love the fediverse.

    But same as big platform issues and entshification ultimately comes from a small number of people owning the sites. Many fediverse issues comes from a architecture of a bigger but still small number of instance owners.

    Fediverse is a BIG step forward. But it’s true, instances are fragile, and a lot of pressure is put on instance owners and final users still have a limited amount of control. Though they still have the choice of becoming an instance owner, which is a plus.

    I have only be in the fediverse one year or so. But I have already seen several instances fall and a lot of “instance wars”. I don’t think this is long term sustainable if we keep growing.

    I have been thinking about it lately, and remember one of the most resilient protocols I have found. eDonkey protocol, unmaintained but still alive because users want to use it.

    I think the “ultimate” internet/social network protocol could/should be something similar. Which mean truly p2p. Probably some kind of p2p storage and control. People depending more on themselves instead of instance owners.

    There was a project about this (plebbit) but I looked at how was it’s state after a post here and they have fallen intro cryptoscams :( so that’s not going to make it. But I hope someone pick the torch of that idea.