Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or you make it like a traditional website with an API used by people making frontends, but the backend (the database) is decentralized, just like regular websites but instead of having a bunch of servers owned by AWS it’s just a bunch of people providing storage space.

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What would be the incentive for people to do that?

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

      What is the incentive for people to share files via peer to peer networks?

      What is the incentive for people to host Minecraft servers?

      Need me to go on?

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      • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

        I liked the community that had built up and wanted to help that continue.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The idea would be the servers would have shared ban/block lists and similar rules so that they can share the load of having open sign ups.

  Basically a coop of instances to improve on-boarding. If you join the coop then you get added to the pool of instances that get assigned normies at random.

  If the authentication was federated it’d be ideal as well but I assume this would be outside the scope of AP and would cause issues if you tried to post from your mastodon.social account from mastodon.world’s server for instance.

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  • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The authentication could be another service, split from Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, … that only gave that service. The instance asks the auth server about “user@instance: password” and the server just says “OK/fail”. That or sending the user to the auth server to get a session cookie.

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• MyOpinion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just imagine the surprise when a new user is placed in hexbear or one of the porn servers.

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  • R3D4CT3D@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    oof, i learned about hexb the hard way, so i feel for these hypothetical users already.

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• JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  See my reply above, but for most users, yes, that’s the easier onboarding.

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• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes honestly, we can manage what instances are pooled for on boarding.

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