Yeah it's interesting. I found this because Mastodon was mentioned by people on Twitter as a place where a lot of people are migrating. The Mastodon interface and subnetwork is the one they seem to be talking about the most right now.
I'm trying to understand whether all these different interfaces all access the same fediverse API exchange and it seems like they do and they're just presenting that information in different ways but I'm not sure about that yet.
For example I'm not sure if peertube is actually accessing a different fediverse database or if those same videos would be available to any of the other interfaces if you could find them. It also seems like these different server groups have ways to exclude some servers they don't want to connect with and I'm not sure how complete or bulletproof that is. In other words I'm not sure that you could make a truth server that couldn't be expunged from everybody else's servers somehow even though they couldn't take you down and it would always be available. I'm checking out how the interlinking is managed now.
Anyway it reminds me a lot of when HTML was first invented and people were just starting to make web pages and things. I really think this Fediverse decentralized data exchange method has real potential like early HTML did.
One vulnerability I do see is that all these different servers that connect together are decentralized but in a way they're sort of like a website that hosts something. And I don't know whether or not the whole big system is communicating using the IP addresses of those servers or whether they're using some other magnet like method of discovery. Maybe they're using a magnet like method of Discovery so if that IP address got shut down someone who had a copy of their own server could move it to a new host and keep that server alive. I don't know that much yet.
The magnet links are still built on top of tcp connections, when you look at how the services often connect, it is still through routed ip space. Off the top of my head I actually cannot think of another main stream protocol which doesn't leverage IP networks, especially since that's what the data center exchanges are using.
[ + ] Monica
[ - ] Monica 1 point 2.5 yearsNov 3, 2022 04:47:29 ago (+1/-0)*
Might as well log onto Mossadiverse.
Had a look at mastodon... apps named cuckoo+ and tooter... sounds fucking gay as fuck. They named the app CUCK
[ + ] Crackinjokes
[ - ] Crackinjokes [op] 1 point 2.5 yearsNov 2, 2022 16:34:14 ago (+1/-0)
Good info beyond mastodon
[ + ] Empire_of_the_Mind
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[ + ] Artificial_Intelligentile
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[ + ] Crackinjokes
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I'm trying to understand whether all these different interfaces all access the same fediverse API exchange and it seems like they do and they're just presenting that information in different ways but I'm not sure about that yet.
For example I'm not sure if peertube is actually accessing a different fediverse database or if those same videos would be available to any of the other interfaces if you could find them. It also seems like these different server groups have ways to exclude some servers they don't want to connect with
and I'm not sure how complete or bulletproof that is. In other words I'm not sure that you could make a truth server that couldn't be expunged from everybody else's servers somehow even though they couldn't take you down and it would always be available. I'm checking out how the interlinking is managed now.
Anyway it reminds me a lot of when HTML was first invented and people were just starting to make web pages and things. I really think this Fediverse decentralized data exchange method has real potential like early HTML did.
[ + ] I_am_baal
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[ + ] Crackinjokes
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[ + ] PotatoWhisperer
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Lol, what a wild time that was.