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

[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.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

I was interested, but I can't click to visit any of the forums.

[dontblink@feddit.it]

Didn't know about CENO, it looks super cool! Might have to dig more into TOR as well

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You have to create a Briar profile in the app, then go to "Request Forums" on the webpage copy paste their link and add them, and you also have to copy paste your link and put it on the webpage in the blank space where is says "Enter your Briar Link"

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

github is not just about git though.

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

AP would actually work fairly well as a messaging protocol

except when a temporary disruption in the connection results in new posts/comments/etc to not get delivered

[balsoft@lemmy.ml]

Yep, but the rest can mostly be replaced with a mailing list. Or, if you're allergic to email, there's also https://forgejo.org/.

[gashead76@lemmy.world]

But that's true of any network connected messaging protocol, making sure a message is delivered could be implemented client side. The issue with AP objects not making it to other clients / servers is more about federation discovery.