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

[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.

[thecynicalsaint@lemmy.ml]

https://vircadia.com/

This is a fun thing I found, wish they had an android app or something.

[gashead76@lemmy.world]

I know how that is! Seems like I'm constantly wondering if I just made this or that up. ‍️

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

We have federated countries

(well... its more like... confederated rather than federated ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

And there's Brair there are Brair Public Forums. There is no censorship. But activity is quite dead. Expect to see a post every month, or longer.

[balsoft@lemmy.ml]

Federated browsers

That's literally just regular browsers, you can interact with any one of billions of webservers

Federated github

Git is federated by nature, you can add as many remotes as you wish and push/pull to all of them. Add in a mailing list for issue tracking and "pull requests" (patch submissions) and you're golden. You can look up sourcehut to self-host a well-integrated combination of the two.

Federated hosting providers

Not sure what exactly you mean by this but maybe take a look at IPFS, although it's more P2P then federation.

Federated internet

Internet is already fairly federated by nature - most commonly used protocols in the OSI stack are open and you can host your own components of critical infrastructure. Getting others to interact with them might be difficult due to security & privacy issues.