 Somebody who is not very technical asked me whether what we do in the Fediverse is "#LocalFirst software". Which is a very catchy name, and sort of related, but of course architecturally different if we go with the Ink & Switch definition: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ 12 comments
@J12t something about this suggests service as a commodity — the very nature of the being widely and easily replicated. Commodity community? @scouten Part of the problem with a term is that one can come at this from so many angles (like tech vs governance) and the terms will likely be different based on that. Right now, what I'm personally interested in is the name for a technical architecture pattern. Like client-server, or thin client, or P2P, or LocalFirst, or ... I think "federated" or "decentralized" is insufficiently precise.  @jamesmarshall @scouten to me, it’s insufficient Lu specific. There are so many structures that are described as federated, of various shapes and forms, and many (most?) of them have really powerful superstructures, unlike what we have in the fediverse, where we have basically none. Example: countries considered to be federated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_state  @J12t @jamesmarshall @scouten you may also be interinterested in https://github.com/socketsupply/socket @ShadSterling too unspecific, just about every style is a networked architectural style these days @J12t the description fits extremely well with my understanding of a “network” back to shorty before the internet. What’s the distinguishing feature? @mousey hmm. I guess that would be true for email before it turned into this weird oligopoly with all the black and white lists and the inability of anybody outside of it to run their own server and actually get mail out. But perhaps the fediverse has the same future? |
Gregory's Server
We need a name for the architectural style where there are many servers, many of those instances of the same software, interacting with each other over well-defined protocols (so one can temporarily forget about the many servers if one wants to), while each server is independently maintained / governed by its own community.
Ideas?