The fediverse is the network of federated decentralized social media using activitypub to connect. Lemmy (the software on which chapo.chat is based) will be in some months part of this network.
What do you think about fediverse ? Are some of you using Mastodon as a twitter replacement ?
I can definitely see how there may be other instances which have a different focus but are not otherwise incompatible with chapo.chat. Letting members of those instances participate in discussions here is probably a good thing.
You see this kind of thing happen on the existing fediverse already. There are mastodon and pleroma instances set up for specific groups or interests, but they all communicate more or less freely with each other.
This way, the larger network does not live or die by one central point of failure.
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Shitposting on an anonymous board is a different use case. Being identifiable across servers is useful in its own way that goes beyond clout chasing.
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Anonymous conversations have their place certainly, but in other cases it's useful to know that you're talking to the same person you were yesterday. If you see posts from bilb@chapo.chat posting on teawareenthusiasts.club, you know it's the same account posting here. That's not about clout, it's about being able to have coherent conversations over a period of time across a network. That said, if you're unconvinced of the benefits of being in a decentralized network rather than a monolithic siloed service that's another discussion.
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Federation, in super simple terms, is like interconnecting different platforms doing similar things, like crossplay does for games, right?
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Everyone keeps saying it's like e-mail, which makes sense to me.
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Maybe I played a bit fast and loose with those words, but federation enables decentralization while allowing these services to talk to each other. I know you find the latter part pointless, but yeah.
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If you don't care to socialize beyond reactions to content, then yes, identity doesn't matter. I like the idea of creating and fostering relationships between people though.
because my identity is metadata I'd rather control. federation allows me to set up my own lemmy instance (for myself, close comrades, etc) and choose what gets shared with other instances.
fully separated identities fragments that data instead and splits control over a bunch of parties.