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submitted 18 hours ago by dontblink@feddit.it to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Since being on Lemmy I feel like I finally found a place I can consider more similar to my home on the web.. I feel like this is the real decentralized web, not the next capitalism nightmare which is the so called "web3"..

Give me some guidance! How is the federation thing going? What are some cool projects I need to know about? I know Lemmy, Friendica, Matrix, Bookwyrm, Mastodon, but I'm sure there's more!

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[-] dontblink@feddit.it 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Exactly! I don't see why we have to rely on the old internet infrastructure for a completely differently conceived type of distributing content!

There's stuff like ipfs, and I'm sure there are many ways to make self hosting easier..

We normalize everyone has a modem/router/access point at home: we should normalize everyone having his own server hosted, bitcoin node, ipfs node etc etc..

And your right, these services have to be super easy to deploy.. I think containerization might be helping with this.. Think about docker or Nixos.. Make a nice GUI and simplify docker even more and you get packages that can run on any distro in any OS, that even a complete noob could spin up! Maybe paired with repos that host most of the self hostable stuff.

But yeah I think the whole structure might be have to be rethought, from the way we host to the way we can connect to each other.. We got to give everyone the possibility to decide which web they want to be part of, and federation definitely allows this!

this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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