| I have no idea who is the best fit to develop standard protocols... the bar is pretty low for P2P at this point. There's very few projects that look at all interesting since the BitTorrent days, most everything is blockchain focused, and aiming to completely replace centralized at all costs with no ability to use central servers, even if it performs badly. Owning your own domain has some disadvantages though. Especially with traditional federation. For one thing, your RasPi at home is probably not as reliable as Google cloud, and neither is a $5 month VPS. Now you've got a single point of failure, that's on consumer hardware, with no professional IT staff managing it. I don't exactly want to pay for something that's less reliable than Gmail and WhatsApp, since an outage at the wrong time could hurt me way more than Google spying is likely to. The only way I think self hosted makes sense for a typical consumer is if it can seamlessly transition to fallback servers, and you can talk offline on a LAN, and it doesn't rely on domains. Like, I should be able to put a DHT record that says "I have linked accounts at these servers, try mine if you can, but if that fails here's a backup that we can meet at, that forwards to my main server". |