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I think what will eventually happen is much like what happened to email, it too was very fragmented feeling early on but more and more adopted it and more servers kept developing and popping up and then at some point more service providers became more similar than alike and then it became what it is now.

The tricky part is that the concept and usefulness of a federated network mostly only grows in the long run and looks like its not going anywhere in the short term much like email and that is always what makes people question its efficacy.

Participation in any and all forms is what establishes it more and more.

Unironiclaly I would love to see a useful version of a flowchart like this, it would be so easy to share something like this around to people in order to try out the fediverse compared to everything else.

I guess i was taking the more generous route with the term then, I was treating capability to interact on the platform as federated which in hindsight doesn’t make as much sense as in the normal context of it.

This is the point I was making yes

I think we are meaning the same thing then

In that case matrix also doesn’t federate because its not interacting with the fediverse like here on lemmy.

But revolt, matrix, and rocket.chat are all deployable by end users to connect to the platform and interact with people.

There is revolt and rocket.chat but yes I’d still do matrix over the others unless a direct discord-like clone is absolutely a must for some reason

For those of us on lemmy.zip we can search a.lemmy.zip and it brings up an alexandrite browser version of lemmy.

We can also do m.lemmy.zip for mobile

Is this exclusive to lemmy.zip or so other do this too?

Just like the baby from 2001 space odyssey

I agree, let’s make it more friendly to people wanting to start a fediverse provider as a business so a big company can’t come in and gobble up everyone

Elastio seems to be a devops platform as opposed to a standalone “buy my service to get a feature rich access to the fediverse or mastodon or peertube specifically, whatever” service like the typical email service providers nowadays

To add to the initial comment, the reason why we would want this is the same reason why we should be donating to instance admins, it only gets more competitive and more work involved the bigger the fediverse gets and the more competitive it gets with offering unique experiences

Let’s look at email as a history example, google gobbled up everyone for gmail.

If fediverse goes the way of email where it infinitely will grow and compete for the most part eventually businesses offering instances as services will be the norm, we can just jump ahead and try to it right before big tech starts to gobble it up.

Aaaand back down lol

Looks like its up and running again!

Anyone know what happened to peertube.wtf?

When I search for it I am greeted with “502 bad gateway open resty”

I was using it and enjoying it a lot for a couple months then it started that and haven’t been able to access it since.

If I recall @meldrik@lemmy.wtf operates it?