Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances
Carighan@lemmy.world 3 months agoAh, sorry if that wasn’t clear, the entire second half was theoretical about a better way of doing this.
A type of federation where there is no “home” for a community any more. It exists equally on all servers, so any being removed would have ~0 effect.
I mentioned that basically because I feel that’s a much better solution to the problem than shared ownership + locked registrations. Sorry if that wasn’t clear, not my primary language.
rglullis@communick.news 3 months ago
This is not federation anymore, but an entirely different architecture. Nostr works like this, but it also has its flaws.
damon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What flaws?
rglullis@communick.news 3 months ago
Your key is your identity. If it’s lost or stolen, you can not revoke it. That alone will make it virtually impossible to be used as an official application protocol for any organization.
Usability is even worse than anything on ActivityPub
Moderation is entirely punted to the end user.
(not technical, but relevant) it is completely dominated by Bitcoin maxis