Yeah, I feel like even federation through activitypub is already too centralised, and from what I’ve read running a bluesky node is orders of magnitude more expensive.
You’d think with the way things are going someone would design something that’s more like the peer to peer networks from the past instead. For microblogging you could easily store enough messages from the people you’re following plus a bunch of proxy stuff on any phone.
AP is largely peer to peer. nodes only pass what is requested (subscribed) by users. it would only take a little tweaking to get nodes to pass that data from the non-originating node to make it even more distributed.
so the potential is there for AP, its already in use by thousands of servers. its where we should be focusing our attention rather than this AT crap.
youre right microblogs do not take a ton of resources, you can almost run a node on a phone, but they lack the static addressing needed.
thats said, microblogging… blech.
the threadiverse takes quite a bit more resources because its not just a single person shouting into the void at other single people. its conversational and therefore orders of magnitude more complex.
Yeah, I feel like even federation through activitypub is already too centralised, and from what I’ve read running a bluesky node is orders of magnitude more expensive.
You’d think with the way things are going someone would design something that’s more like the peer to peer networks from the past instead. For microblogging you could easily store enough messages from the people you’re following plus a bunch of proxy stuff on any phone.
AP is largely peer to peer. nodes only pass what is requested (subscribed) by users. it would only take a little tweaking to get nodes to pass that data from the non-originating node to make it even more distributed.
so the potential is there for AP, its already in use by thousands of servers. its where we should be focusing our attention rather than this AT crap.
youre right microblogs do not take a ton of resources, you can almost run a node on a phone, but they lack the static addressing needed. thats said, microblogging… blech.
the threadiverse takes quite a bit more resources because its not just a single person shouting into the void at other single people. its conversational and therefore orders of magnitude more complex.