Over the years, I've had a bunch of ideas on how to move the Fediverse forward. This article highlights the culmination of what I'd like to build.

I’ve been on the Fediverse for nearly 15 years now. I’ve seen platforms grow, change, and evolve, and I’ve taken inspiration from projects that have a lot of really good ideas.

This is a conceptual pitch / brain droppings on Postmodern, the Fediverse platform I hope to eventually build.

  • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I also think there’s some really valuable ideas in […] Nostr […]

    I think that too but when I brought that up to fedivers folks they always yell at me : IT’S A CRYPTOBRO PLATEFORM ! or THE FOUNDER IS RIGHT WING !

    I really do think that digital identites on p2p network thanks to asymetrical cryptography is a better design that accounts tied to a central server. I am glad that I am not alone and will follow your project closely (I will try to at least). Interesting read thank you !

    • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      One thing I really like about the author’s fedi coverage, he doesn’t kowtow to rank stupidity and avoid mentioning alternatives because of hivemind disapproval.

      From a publisher (user) perspective, Nostr’s censorship resistance by design blows the doors off of what ActivityPub can claim in that regard. And I say that as someone who’s been pretty much all-in on ActivityPub fedi since its inception (almost a decade, wow)

      • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        I totaly agree with you, I am somwheat new to the fediverse, I discovered it somewhere between 2018 and 2020 and discovered nostr a few years later, I didn’t got it at first but today I understand how interesting it is to build social network or plateformes, even though that Nostr can do far more than social media.

        1. Because the admin don’t have to manage the authentification process of its users.
        2. Because users don’t rely on a central server to keep their social graphs or interact with them.
        3. Because owning some private keys makes you owning your digital identities.

        Of course the UX isn’t as great as the fediverse or not close to centralized opaque surveillance plateforme but it has rapidly improved and I had much joy discovering the bridge builded by soapbox and really want their Ditto servers project to become a thing.

        I really think that we should teach kids asymetrical cryptography at school because if we want to build a digital society we need strong encryption, true authentifications and data integrity checks. But I’m a dumb utopist…