@prologic@twtxt.net sorry about the spelling mistakes. English is my third language.
Also I didn’t mean to question the vision as such.
Just ment a mobile up that pulls in files directly from the users follow list would line up better with the idea of decentralizing personal data. Since not everyone will be running a pod, but most everyone can have a public facing folder. Specially now with services like Skynet coming online.
Sorry hope I didn’t offend you too much.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @tamer@twtxt.net It’s a “balance” honestly. Whilst it might be a nice idea et all, it might now work out on a practical level. What would work however is adding better support to the Mobile App for “offline” use – as-in it isn’t always required to be “online” as such. Cache as much as possible, Post for later when back online and connected to your Pod.
The greater vision here one day is that your “Pod” will actually be part of your Home 😅 – Okay meby @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org will never run one, but that’s because he has his own “Yarn”-compatible client 😅
@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com Well to be fair you would probably not build it as a server with constant polling but as an app that fetched feeds like an RSS Reader. But the experience would suck really.
And where would you host your own feed?! On your 5G connection from your phone?! 🤣
@tamer@twtxt.net Scuttlebutt does something like this I believe? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net Yes but it is much more complicated. Every user travels with all the data of its friends. And shares the data with users totally disconnected from the net. There are no public facing files or folders. It has also pods that share data.
Use encryption, and it’s very data heavy on the user app. it is meant as an offline up to be shared over WiFi or Bluetooth.
Perhaps you already had a long discussion about centralization vs federation vs decentralization, network effect, availability, single point of failure, replication, privacy-oriented services, self-sustainability and more.
All of them are pulling forces, modelling the shape of a product/service/system surrounding it with ideas, beliefs, ideology, philosophy, humans livings with machines, thousands of ‘standards’, and such…
Aaaand, that’s good!