Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

Can’t get this brain fart out of my head.

What would the simplest, FOSS, alternative look like and would it be worth it?

Quick thoughts:

* FOSS platforms intended to be big single servers, but dedicated to …
* Shared/Single Sign On
* Easy cross posting
* Enabling and building universal Multi-platform clients.
* Unlike email, supporting small servers

No duplication/federation/protocol required, just software.

#fediverse
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  • 1984@lemmy.today
    7·
    9 months ago

    Single sign in to the fediverse seems awful. Then we are logging in to it through American big tech servers. Forget anonymity and no tracking. Probably see ads on the login screen too.

    But otherwise, sure. A single server is not always a bad idea. In practice, this is how Lemmy is too. Most people are on Lemmy.world, and they picked that server because they don’t think decentralized is important.

    • mindlight@lemm.ee
      4·
      9 months ago

      Single Sign On doesn’t mean that “American BigTech Servers” have to be used.

      Essentially, for the users, it means that an account for site A can be used to login on site B because site A and site B trust each other.

      A concept to Google if one wants to know more is “federated login”.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yea this is exactly what I was thinking about.

        The idea being that there would be circles of trusted platforms and once you have an account with one you have an account on all of them. Which, I imagine, would allow easy/quick cross posting from one platform to another when desired and make it easier to build and maintain an aggregating client that allows you to view all the platforms within such a “circle of trust” that you’re interested in through a unified interface.