Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn’t even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.

For me, it’d be the following:

  • LinkedIn
  • Meetup
  • Tiktok

I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I’m not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.

I’ll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I’d be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    And I feel like I’ve explained in as much depth as I can quickly what the problem is. I’ll pass the ball over into your court now. Propose an architecture that can do this, prove me wrong.

    Like, if you have specific questions I’m here, but it would be a waste of both our time to go “no, you can’t; yes you can” back and forth.

    • danhakimi@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      I’m not saying “yes, you currently can do this with the activitypub protocol as it is,” I’m saying this feature could be added to activitypub, and I’ve made specific references to protocols like POP and IMAP that handle logging into email servers from various client applications. I’m not going to code it myself, I’m an attorney, but I do know enough about computer science to know that there is no computabilty issue with my proposal, and that you dislike it primarily because you don’t currently have an idea for implementing it, which is not my concern at all.