Is decentralised federated social media over engineered? (hachyderm.io)

submitted 9 months ago by maegul@hachyderm.io to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

Can't get this brain fart out of my head.

What would the simplest, FOSS, alternative look like and would it be worth it?

Quick thoughts:

* FOSS platforms intended to be big single servers, but dedicated to ...
* Shared/Single Sign On
* Easy cross posting
* Enabling and building universal Multi-platform clients.
* Unlike email, supporting small servers

No duplication/federation/protocol required, just software.

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[-] Aatube@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

@maegul How would servers share accounts and passwords? Allowing any server to know what a user’s password should be is not very good for security.

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[-] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Trusting other peoples identification and authorizattion isnt about sharing accounts and passwords. If user A of server X want to log in at server Y, server Y asks server X if it knows this user A. If so server X handles the password/mfa check and just gives the green light to server Y.