Decentralized social media using federated and peer-to-peer protocols 📦

15    09 Jan 2021 19:02 by u/kek

9 comments

4 u/CanIGetAHellYeah 09 Jan 2021 19:33
I've always wondered if it would be possible to make a federated reddit-like site where different communities could be hosted on different instances. Voting would be tough to get right in a federated environment, though.
1 u/kek [OP] 09 Jan 2021 19:51
yes dev.lemmy.ml is doing this Although if you just toss out the idea of a collectively curated front page and just focus on the individual community for each instance, I think it could work.
2 u/CanIGetAHellYeah 09 Jan 2021 20:12
Even if there's not a central front page, I think in order to prevent issues with vote abuse, vote federation would need to be opt-in. Otherwise you'd have to deal with bad vote counts from dishonest instances.
1 u/kek [OP] 09 Jan 2021 20:15
I say just let the instances tend to themselves. Like the .win communities, each with their own vote counts, posts, comments.
1 u/lenn_king 10 Jan 2021 04:30
What's common is a shared front page where you can see all the communities. However the admins of communities can block another community from appearing on the front page of said admin's community (basically admins block nodes, and user should have that option too)
2 u/fanchiotti 09 Jan 2021 20:18
That's the dream
2 u/lenn_king 09 Jan 2021 20:49
We need this people. Mastodon uses federation, and were founded because they thought Twitter of all places harbored transphobes and racists. The admins were all about Free and Open until Gab made an instance, in which Mastodon had no ability to take them down. This can be useful when you have many people who disagree with the site administration
1 u/kek [OP] 09 Jan 2021 20:51
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/
1 u/lenn_king 09 Jan 2021 21:09
Sure they isolated them, but Gab was still thriving, and more importantly still running