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+title = "Federations is the one new concept that excites me"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = true
+weight = 2001
+abstract = "The tech is here, we just need a good product"
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+While you can't open a [fridge without some AI jumping at you](https://www.samsung.com/us/home-appliances/refrigerators/bespoke/bespoke-4-door-flex-refrigerator-29-cu-ft-with-ai-family-hub-and-ai-vision-inside-n-stainless-steel-rf29db9900qdaa/), or [your computer coming with hardware enabled spyware](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/06/07/update-on-the-recall-preview-feature-for-copilot-pcs/), somewhere in the dark something cool lurks.
+Not much in the dark, as ActivityPub is an open standard, and millions of peoples are using it via Mastodon, but the idea behind _federation_ doesn't get near enough attention.
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+For decades The Open Web was under attack by shady companies, like Zuckernet or Muskitter.
+There now is a generation who was raised on the web, but has no experience of even the simplest of Bulletin Board.
+They know the internet as "WiFi" and the web is just a series of apps on their phones.
+All attempts to educate them failed because it needed a yet another login on a platform no of their friends use.
+Unless you've just finished showering in VC money, your app will not be a hit.
+Kids won't join them, because they want their celebrities, their youtubers, their pop idols.
+XMPP has no chance for a wide acceptance in this Discord riddled word.
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+Federation may be just what we need.
+You get a single account, which becomes your identity across the entire federated web.
+Want to send some shitpost to Lemmy?
+If you're already using mastodon.social, then you've already got what you need.
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+But federation requires a lot of work to be easy enough for _common folk_.
+Twitter can paint your homepage with millions of cool posts, because it has them (sadly).
+Your Mastodon server does not, as the sexy girl from 3rd class may be on a different server.
+
+We're seeing people returning to Twitter because the entire multi-server/service idea is not easy to get a grasp on, and even harder to effectively use.
+You need _active work_ to build a network.
+There is no algorithm that will fill in the blanks.
+For me this is a plus, but I am old.
+Kids don't want to do anything more than swipe right (or whatever they do on tiktalk).
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+Federation is an amazing idea, it's a technological problem.
+It's ready for prime time, but only for nerds.
+And we're seeing it on Mastodon - there is bigger chance to meet someone rocking a Linux desktop than to see a celebrity.
+Yes, we've got [William Gibson](https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal), but he is not Taylor Swift.
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+We're now seeing the [Threads opening itself to federation](https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/), but most of us see it more as a thread than a risk.
+How will they enshitify it to make money?
+Google was also happily [supporting XMPP](https://support.google.com/code/answer/62464?hl=en), but this was since discontinued and replaced with a mediocre product.
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+Federation is great for the people, not for the gatekeepers.
+DMA is failing here, because it allows Facebook to pick and choose who they make Messenger interoperable.
+There will be no official XMPP bridge anytime soon, and therefore there will be no real interoperability.
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+What we need is a great product.
+_We've got the technology_.