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A Plan for Social Media - Rethinking Federation
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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A Matrix app connects to a Matrix server, same for XMPP and email. Sometimes they might connect to a few more for extra accounts.
An AP client in the way you're describing will need to connect to thousands of servers (at least). The whole point of federation is that you get content from a large network but through a single source.
So does a web browser. So does a mobile Lemmy client like Jerboa. "Connecting to thousands of servers" doesn't mean anything, if these connections are sporadic and uncorrelated.