The thing that I love about it is that you can host your own account. So if Bluesky decides that they are huge fans of fascism, you can take your account and move to a competitor, Redsky, and not lose your posts, messages, follows, etc (assuming those people also move to the new platform)
So, your account can be the same between any number of platforms, you just have to let the platform add it to their list so their crawlers can show your activity.
So, like Lemmy, you can host your own “node” (I forget what they call it. A box that can whitelist, crawl, and display accounts that people want to be visible there) but you can also just host your “account” and you can bring it to whatever platform you want and people can be confident they’ve found the same person.
I love your enthusiasm and that’s because I probably understood about half at best.
Sounds like a very powerful idea. I come from a time before email was free, and I can imagine the hassle today if I didn’t have access to say my Gmail that’s been going for+20 years now. So with this simple example of self hosting identify I can see massive upsides.
I don’t understand fedivwrse at all but I can see how this would take it to the next level. Ietf has a lot of weight so it’s another plus to reduce the weight of IEEE and US dependency.
Exactly! On the a.roomy.place there’s a good, non-technical breakdown on what makes the concept good and what flaws it has, but the core of it is the concept of owning your own identity. The idea of “login with Google/Facebook” significantly reduces internet freedom, this gives you a way to “login as yourself”, beyond the ownership of a company. That’s the big boon here. With the IETF lending some credence to it now, it’s a good sign that self-hosted identity for your public presence will be adopted into the mainstream and a less locked-down internet is on the horizon.
I really like how it splits data hosting an applications, you the only public facing part of the network you need to host is a pds, you can use clients that work entirely locally, such as appviewlite, or reddwarf.app.
What’s good about it and what’s it good at?
The thing that I love about it is that you can host your own account. So if Bluesky decides that they are huge fans of fascism, you can take your account and move to a competitor, Redsky, and not lose your posts, messages, follows, etc (assuming those people also move to the new platform)
So, your account can be the same between any number of platforms, you just have to let the platform add it to their list so their crawlers can show your activity.
So, like Lemmy, you can host your own “node” (I forget what they call it. A box that can whitelist, crawl, and display accounts that people want to be visible there) but you can also just host your “account” and you can bring it to whatever platform you want and people can be confident they’ve found the same person.
I love your enthusiasm and that’s because I probably understood about half at best.
Sounds like a very powerful idea. I come from a time before email was free, and I can imagine the hassle today if I didn’t have access to say my Gmail that’s been going for+20 years now. So with this simple example of self hosting identify I can see massive upsides.
I don’t understand fedivwrse at all but I can see how this would take it to the next level. Ietf has a lot of weight so it’s another plus to reduce the weight of IEEE and US dependency.
Exactly! On the a.roomy.place there’s a good, non-technical breakdown on what makes the concept good and what flaws it has, but the core of it is the concept of owning your own identity. The idea of “login with Google/Facebook” significantly reduces internet freedom, this gives you a way to “login as yourself”, beyond the ownership of a company. That’s the big boon here. With the IETF lending some credence to it now, it’s a good sign that self-hosted identity for your public presence will be adopted into the mainstream and a less locked-down internet is on the horizon.
/over-enthusiastic optimism
I really like how it splits data hosting an applications, you the only public facing part of the network you need to host is a pds, you can use clients that work entirely locally, such as appviewlite, or reddwarf.app.