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Re:Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse? by echelon on Thursday February 29, 2024 @04:22PM (#39555272)
We need better-than-bittorrent p2p social swarms that are fast, efficient, and massive.

I want for when someones posts an article, to have my local custom filters flag it for interest, schedule it for reading, grab the photos and videos, pull in relevant comments (again filtered, perhaps to my interest graph peers and highly-ranked dissenting opinions), and never have to step foot on the corrupted, ad-ridden, algorithmically boosted web again.

News websites are trash. Reddit and socials are trash. I want complete unfettered control over the inbound stream. Everything first class from engineering principles. The protocol, the data structures, the ranking, the visualization, etc.

I want data I can easily copy into my notebook, easily bookmark, easily remix and respond to.

The web doesn't cut it, and it never has.

P2P social should be article and media centric. Sharing news, blogs, videos, etc. with first class threaded comments built atop it.

Everything is ephemeral and immutable unless you want to save it or publish a correction.

Re:Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse? by dingdingdang on Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:28PM (#39556087)
I echo your sentiment about bittorrent and p2p swarm protocols. Seeing the current fediverse emerge has felt almost anachronistic to me - the tech put to use is, at baseline, older and less resilient than the p2p protocols from the late 1990s and early 2000s. There may or may not be milage in the Matrix protocol...
Re:Can We Get More Decentralised Than the Fediverse? by alchemist1e9 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:57PM (#39557249)
Does Nostr move the ball forward at all in that direction in your opinion?