"The threat model and economics of federated systems devolve to concentrating trust in the hands of a few, while missing out on the scale advantages of purely centralized solutions." This article is making me have a think.https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/federation-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/ …
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Extremely yup. This makes the point of the original article... and yet you can still exit, without losing your data or social graph. I think this is still much better than if email were centralized like Facebook is centralized.https://twitter.com/gordonbrander/status/1204915375596457984 …
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Oh! I like that as a concept! Put self-extrication up there with the right to be forgotten on the list of things I would like baked into social mediums.
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Although, I guess that gets a bit off topic. The central thrust though is agreement with OP: I'm not even sure it's more private. It could be but the trust model almost guarantees a pretty big exploitable surface.
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That said...I still very much want to be wrong.
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