I want more federation! Federated browsers? Federated github? Federated hosting providers? Federated internet? Where are them?

[gashead76@lemmy.world]

The developer of Pixelfed - and Instagram-alike (and now Loops.video - a TikTok like platform) announced that he is working on an ActivityPub messaging service called "Sup." There's nothing else really known about it except that he's developing it. AP would actually work fairly well as a messaging protocol aside from the lack of end-to-end encryption, but that too is being worked on.

[spaduf@slrpnk.net]

There's also https://forgefed.org/

[hallettj@leminal.space]

I think of sourcehut has already-federated git hosting because to send the equivalent of a pull request instead of making an account you send patches via email using git's built-in email workflow. Email is federated, therefore that is federated git collaboration.

[daeraxa@lemmy.ml]

I thought I had heard about him making that before but no amount of searching seemed to find it... I guess thats why, I was thinking I had just made it up or something.

[skeezix@lemmy.world]

How about a federated dildo.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

There’s only like 20 some federated projects. I recommend you read into FOSS, self hosting, and Linux as this is what most of us are into and is along the same lines

[los_chill@programming.dev]

Why not give a crash course for OP? As I understand it, Federation is just one standard of protocol that can communicate across servers. I think OP is referring to Federated here as both the protocol and the movement away from platforms. I think this is a valid part of growing both Federated protocols, and protocols in general as an alternative to big-tech platforms. The major platforms DO offer hosting in a way. People host their photos libraries on Facebook and Instagram. So a non-platform alternative may interest some.

For hosting - get a private VPS and run your own cloud services.
Explore RSS for news feeds, a super OG protocol that podcast feeds still use I think.

Web browsers shouldn't be federated because the idea there is privacy, security, and ad blocking.

[rentlar@lemmy.ca]

Peertube (Youtube-like) and Loops (Tiktok-like) and Pixelfed (Instagram-like Photosharing service) are growing.

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

Since Git can already be federated (no MS GitHub required), take a look at Darcs & Pijul for a better version control model based on Patch Theory. Tooling needs help, but fundamentals are sound.

Everything in the XMPP world is worth checking out. Movim is one of the more interesting projects bring a social media option to the platform & pushing boundaries for clients that is cool to see—as well as Libervia for setting up communities.

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

You can probably host a feed reader & a few other things at home on old hardware & a budget. Paying $5 USD a month on hosting is too much for many people.

[sudoer777@lemmy.ml]

Federated Github? That’s… git.

Github is a forge with features like issues, pull requests, project planning, and automation, so not really.

[superkret@feddit.org]

Web Browsers are all federated because they communicate with each other over a common standard.

[superkret@feddit.org]

Sometimes I don't even know who I am while I'm browsing.

[morrowind@lemmy.ml]

Not federated, but distrubuted github https://radicle.xyz/

[scott@lem.free.as]

You're right. I was thinking more along the distribution side only.

[krash@lemmy.ml]

Fully agree, but part of the problem is that the fundamentals that our technology relies on to communicate is arcane (DNS, IP, etc.). The other problem is that were often trying to translate human experiences and needs to a binary and technological format, which cannot be done in simple terms and creates complexity.

I don't expect us being able to move away from current jank-stack technologies anytime soon.

[fatur0000new@lemmy.ml]

federated browser

Do you mean something like CENO Browser and TOR Browser?

[amzd@lemmy.world]

If you want decentralized private messaging see https://delta.chat

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

Forgejo is implementing federation

Interesting!

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

The whole workflow and philosophy of sourcehut is so different than GitHub though. I think a lot more people would be interested in GitHub, but federated.

There's also this which some people may care about.