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    so, this is a bit of an abstract mathematical post. I think that a fediverse service consists mostly of three parts: identity provider, data hoster, and feed provider. The data hoster is the machine that hosts the posts and comments and upvote/downvote stats. The feed provider is the service which gives you a nice, scrollable overview over new content for you. This is today the same system that provides the data, but it could be separated, such as having a custom "search engine" that gives you content, that you use independently of where the data is stored. The identity provider basically only makes a proof that "you are you" : you give it your login credentials and it gives you a kind of token that authenticates (proves your identity) to other services. like, i'm on discuss.tchncs.de, but i can post to lemmy.world. this is because the discuss.tchncs.de server says to lemmy.world that i indeed have this account on this server. so they prove my identity in a way. What i argue now is that such an identity providing server is not technically necessary. You could use something like an ~/.ssh/id_rsa file that you generate on your own computer and use that public key to identify yourself on the fediverse. I don't think that this approach has any inherent advantages over how things are being done today, but it could be done that way and that in itself is fascinating. :D
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    @erlend Appreciate it! Could you expand on how you envision a group following another group working?
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    rimu@piefed.social when the question is federated outward, is it of type of question? ๐Ÿ˜› kariboka@mastodon.social
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    Annoying #Mastodon and/or #ActivityPub ??? (need info from people much more knowledgeable than I) limitation: I cannot change the post privacy of posts which have already been posted. Not a fan of deleting everything I've put up on #Masto but *do* want to exercise control over what I have already posted and be much more selective about what is and isn't public in the future. Would be great if that were possible, but it seems my only option is to go "scorched Earth." Frustrating. #Fedi #Fediverse