Anthony CowleyI still don't really get the ramifications of the Mastodon federation model, but I also feel like figuring that out already represents too much of conversation here.
Monoid Mary@acowley federation doesn't mean quite what i thought it meant in the beginning, but i'm learning.
Chris Martin@argumatronic @acowley We're also all abusing the hell out of it. I see people talking about "federating a message from one instance to another" which is nowhere near normal usage
@chris_martin .....i am not even sure what that phrase means @acowley
@argumatronic @chris_martin I don't particularly like how an identity is affiliated with a host. I get that other systems are similar (e.g. Email), but I'd hope for something better. Maybe we really should all host our own instances.
@acowley I think this is a minimum viable product. Ease of building implementations is still v important at this stage. Identity things may come later but they're hard so this may not be the time for them.
@acowley i think that is just about my ideal internet, each of us hosting our own instance but we can all still talk to each other. from what i hear (i'm planning to start an instance but have not yet), we have a ways to go before it's easy enough to do that that just anyone can do it for themselves.
Thomas Tuegel@chris_martin @argumatronic @acowley I was thinking the other day about how to proxy your identity through your own Webfinger instance that redirects to a real Mastodon server. It would function like an MX record for email. The only thing missing is: PubSubHubbub doesn't have a way to transfer subscribers from one hub to another. Solve that problem, though, and you'd just need an HTTP server to proxy your (portable) Mastodon identity.
@acowley @argumatronic @chris_martin Though, the PubSubHubbub protocol supports separating the hub from the publisher (Mastodon) so maybe that's the way to go. Everybody runs their own hub, but backed by a real instance, which would have much lower load...