Aatube

maegul , 4 months ago to fediverse

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 , 4 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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Aatube , 4 months ago

@Sean Nice pun :D

I don’t think requiring users to use a really long and virtually unmemorizable password (the private key) would be a pretty good idea for a social network either.

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Aatube , 4 months ago

@joeldebruijn Ah, that makes much more sense. I guess this could be also used for phishing, but that may be unavoidable.

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Aatube , 4 months ago

@Sean Not all devices support passkeys.

Unmemorizable passwords are not the kind I like to use. I'd rather be able to login on some random incognito guest computer.

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ajayiyer , 5 months ago to linux

Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

1. Continue on Win 10 but with higher security risks.
2. Buy new and expensive hardware that supports Win11.
3. Try a beginner friendly #Linux distro like #linuxmint. It only takes about two months to acclimate.

@nixCraft @linux @windowscentralbot

Aatube , 5 months ago

@ajayiyer that is, assuming they don’t release new Windows versions