Scott M. Stolz

I am an entrepreneur, small business owner, author, and researcher. I am also working on an open source project called Neuhub.

I am posting from Hubzilla with Neuhub via ActivityPub.

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Cake day: January 20th, 2025

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  • @NostraDavid

    Why is it so expensive to federate Bluesky?

    Mostly because it depends on certain centralized services. You can create your own apps and even host your own content, but the discovery and distribution system has a copy of every post so that it is easy to access by everyone. The positive side is that you don’t have to worry about missing replies in the conversation since their centralized database has a copy of it. The downside is that hosting such a massive database is expensive.





  • Federated logins make sense for forums and websites where you have access to content such as PeerTube.

    For forums, logging into the forum with your fediverse account would actually be ideal since you can use a forum-style interface to navigate the topics, which would be easier than trying to navigate the same topics on Mastodon. Same thing with PeerTube. You may want to watch videos on PeerTube and comment right on their website without creating a PeerTube account. With federated single sign on, you can post with your existing fediverse account.

    We have that on Hubzilla and it is called OpenWebAuth. We can log into other instances and comment directly on their instance as ourselves after logging in.




  • Right now the user’s identity and the content they consume & interact with are too intertwined in many cases.

    There are two aspects here:

    1. The user’s home base, which is basically which server or app they log into.
    2. The communities they belong to, which can be on any server anywhere on the fediverse.

    We have to get out of the mindset that the server you sign up on is your community, because with federation, you are not limited to the server you sign up on.