[evbogue]

The Federated App Problem has already been solved a couple of times using replicated gossip networks of signed messages. Sometimes they use append-only logs, other times they use only relays, and the implementations are all highly creative and experimental.

The trouble with decentralized federation social media servers is the weight of the network falls upon whoever volunteered to host the program at the domain name in the first place, and sometimes the weight is too much to handle.

The solution is, as we all already know, self-authenticating messages that do not rely on any one server. Do we want to call this Scuttlebot? Do we want to call this Nostr? Does Bluesky even qualify? Well, I'm sure we'll figure it out eventually with enough minds trained upon the problem.