Re: federated free software movement

[jahoti]

On 11/16/21 7:45 PM, Dennis Payne wrote:
> I don't see how a federated wikipedia would work. Even if you banned
> obvious trolls, how would you deal with contentious issues? Federation
> isn't some magical technologies that immediately makes everything
> better.

For the case of contentious issues, Stallman did make an interesting 
suggestion in his essay proposing a free encyclopaedia that multiple 
versions of an article could be offered. I don't know how that would be 
technically implemented, yet it might be a viable option.

> An emphasis on self-hosting is not a good idea in my opinion. It is
> great that we are not locked into a commercial provider but most people
> don't want to self-host. Self-hosting is work. Some people will
> certainly do that but thankfully some of them allow the rest of us to
> use their service. While I can run my own mastadon, I don't want to.
>
> (That being said, it should be easy to setup a self-host. I was on a
> Hubzilla instance but it broke and the admin could not figure out how
> to fix it. For Hubzilla they provide support using Hubzilla. So if you
> have a problem on your instance, you need to register on another
> instance so you can ask for help.)

Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote an interesting article on this: 
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

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