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1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Feb-2019 13:37:18 EST Don Romano (alt)

   The whole point of federated networks is that you must be a system administrator to be in control of your data and your identity on the network? That isn't good enough. Most people can't be expected to do this, and are thus at the mercy of the instance owners, much like Twitter users are at the mercy of Twitter. Hardly an improvement, and actually slightly worse in this case, since the discussion was prompted by the guy shutting down this instance for several days.

   1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Feb-2019 13:55:30 EST Don Romano (alt)

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      I'm not convinced that federation is the right model for a libre social medium. I think a decentralised model is better. Having instances form a network is a good idea, but tying user identities to them isn't.

      It would be better to use cryptographic key pairs for identification. To register, you'd submit a cryptographically signed user name claim to the network. A blockchain could be used to prove that you claimed it first.

      1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Feb-2019 14:00:52 EST Don Romano (alt)

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         Your key pair would be generated for you by the client/browser and would be derived from your chosen passphrase. You could change your keypair at any time by submitting a public key change announcement to the blockchain, signed with your old private key. GUI-wise, it would just look like you're changing your password, of course.

      2. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Feb-2019 14:01:28 EST Don Romano (alt)

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         Your key pair would be generated for you by the client/browser and would be derived from your chosen passphrase. You could change your keypair at any time by submitting a public key change announcement to the blockchain, signed with your old private key. GUI-wise, it would just look like you're changing your passphrase, of course.

         1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 23-Feb-2019 14:21:50 EST Don Romano (alt)

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            The Fediverse model of selective federation is annoying, frankly, but it probably wouldn't be desirable for every server in the network to stream the full network either. I think there needs to be some notion of named groups or spaces that anyone could create and moderate.

   2. mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 24-Feb-2019 09:25:16 EST mangeurdenuage

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      Usage of computer requires knowledge, if you abstract that knowledge then the people who uses the many layers of abstractions will be dependent on those who created/controls them.