Re:An off-grid social network
by SolarNet on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:15PM
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I mean, my view on the switching nodes thing is. It's not like you can just switch emails. Sure you can install a shim in there to forward everything, but there is no way to actually switch it. And that is the design GNU social uses.
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Yeah, and that's also a pain point with email.
It's a pain point with the entire design of federated services. On the other hand, the pain point with the monolithic services design of Facebook is I can't even talk to people on other services so...
I'd rather be able to email everybody and have it be annoying to switch than be able to only email people on my chosen provider (and then have to make an account on every service anyway).