I’ve recently tried to use peertube and I think it could improve a lot if it showed all the content in all instances. But instead you have to look around many instances to try and find something you like. Then there’s other thing, it can’t suggest content if it doesn’t know what you like and without sharing the data between the instances it doesn’t know anything about anyone. If the user data was encrypted and shared between all sites, when you log in it could use the now decrypted user data to suggest content. Or maybe it can share the data with third parties, I don’t really know.

  • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Which would be awesome. A fediverse that depends on all servers being the same is effectively centralized. A fediverse where there are freestanding reasons for joining any of a million different servers is a fediverse where dependence on outside servers is minimized, which is a good thing.

    You want enough content to keep things interested but don’t necessarily need the logic of any and all instances to be that they must depend on access to a server other than the one that operate on in order to be worthy of use.

    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      If you want to minimize dependence from outside servers then it’d be best to centralize, not federate. If you want a million servers with 5 people on each you need dependence with the outside servers you want content from, unless you are exclusively interested in the content those 4 other people post in your one server.

      Your subscription to a community from an outside server will always depend on the outside server providing the content from that community. And you have to also depend on your server having connection with that outside server.

      You necessarly need every server to depend on all outside servers you want to participate in. Either that or you’ll need to have one account in each of those servers you are interested in, which wouldn’t be that different to the end user from having each of those servers be centralized.

      The main thing you get in this fediverse approach is mirroring and replication. Which I’m not sure is worth it considering all the other problems that this brings, like request to delete content needing to be propagated everywhere where that content was mirrored, like the need for your server to block/allow outside servers so you don’t host bad content from them, etc.

      Having a shared account across multiple servers is another thing but that would work better if a shared common account system was used, something like OpenID, so you don’t have to create more than just one account. If that was done then it wouldn’t matter how centralized each instance is and you could indeed have a million centralized instances, with users being shared among them.