Zachary Dunn

@zack:mozilla.org

Published on 2023-03-05 17:07:24Z

Small communities federated together using the same underlying standards feel obvious to me as the future of social. But I'm neck-deep in it and have

Small communities federated together using the same underlying standards feel obvious to me as the future of social. But I'm neck-deep in it and have been advocating for this for twenty years. So why am I wrong?

Ben Werdmuller

The silos have conditioned everyone to want maximum reach, which is always going to be harder with decentralized services. Interoperability between decentralized services is always piecemeal; see Mastodon's reliance on ActivityPub + WebFinger + other subtle heuristics. That slows any attempt to build a cohesive decentralized platform that works for everyone/every media type.