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.

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The servers were computers 1000x slower than a modern mobile phone. So yes, Lemmy seems overbuilt.

Well yea, part of my thinking here is whether all the work of federation, from building the software, debugging and testing it (which AFAICT is a huge pain in the ass) and then actually running it as a job ... is actually worth it ... when users could very well be happy with something much simpler and the mission of creating a more open, safe and "billionaire proof" social web easier to achieve with something more straightforward.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Usenet had a counterpart to federation in that posts got automatically propagated between servers. I haven't read the Wikipedia article about it but that might be a good place to start if you want to learn about it. Being a server admin did require some ongoing effort, just like with Lemmy.