Hilarious realization I had last night …
People: “But the Fediverse isn’t run by professional companies so your social platform could get shuttered!”
Me, looking at Google’s graveyard of platforms and features that they shutter, pouring one out for G+.
People: “But the Fediverse isn’t run by professional companies so I’d have to start over”
Me, looking at SixDegrees which was shuttered, only to be resold and turned into Linkedin so we all had to start over, lol
People REALLY don’t remember history, not even in their own lifetime, about how professional tech companies - even billion dollar ones - shutter things on them ALL THE TIME 😂
#Fediverse #ActivityPub
People: “But the Fediverse isn’t run by professional companies so your social platform could get shuttered!”
Me, looking at Google’s graveyard of platforms and features that they shutter, pouring one out for G+.
People: “But the Fediverse isn’t run by professional companies so I’d have to start over”
Me, looking at SixDegrees which was shuttered, only to be resold and turned into Linkedin so we all had to start over, lol
People REALLY don’t remember history, not even in their own lifetime, about how professional tech companies - even billion dollar ones - shutter things on them ALL THE TIME 😂
#Fediverse #ActivityPub
Hobson Lane
in reply to Grow Fediverse • • •Strypey
in reply to Hobson Lane • • •@hobs
> your posts are portable, so you can move to a competing platform
Follows and followers can be migrated to some degree between fediverse servers, but AFAIK post portability is still an unsolved problem. Mainly because the post address is tied to the domain name of the server. So even if your new server could repost all your older posts and backdate the timestamps, they wouldn't appear as part of the original threads.
@growfediverse
Hobson Lane
in reply to Strypey • • •I'm happy just to be able to download the data and it's possible to write a script to repost them however you like.
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Strypey
in reply to Grow Fediverse • • •(1/2)
@growfediverse
> your social platform could get shuttered!
Having ridden the bleeding edge since the early days of the web, I've had a fair few services disappear out from under me, both community-hosted and corporate-hosted. I agree with you that the corporate ones aren't immune to being shut down, but I have to admit it happens less, and often with more warning.
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •(2/2)
Reliability of hosting makes people more hesitant to do more than dabble in a new service, which does limit adoption. If we can solve that, we've got something to offer that's more useful to people than proprietary services. Ways to do that could include building community institutions that make hosting more sustainable, or by making accounts and data less dependent on SPoF hosts, or both.
#CommunityHosting
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