[kemayo]

I think the bit that makes it "federated" is that they want to use ActivityPub to synchronize articles between servers.

Based on https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis#federation I think the practical impact of this would be that it'd be easy to have your personal Ibis instance be a fork of some big mainstream one, where the only difference is that e.g. your version of the Pigeons article explains that birds aren't real, but everything else is automatically kept in sync.

I'm not convinced this is particularly worthwhile, or much of an improvement over the existing "run a wiki" workflow.

[mdaniel]

My experience with the Fediverse thus far also implies that one could run a copy of any such "federated wiki" that has all the same(?) content as other origins but that actually renders on mobile or without JavaScript or via the Gemini protocol or whatever else since it decouples content from presentation. In theory, I would guess that if this also went so far as to incorporate IPFS it could also share the actual storage burden, too, so there wouldn't have to be 4999 copies of the exact same pigeon text (along with 4999 cute pigeon pictures) stored on 4999 different servers plus the one where birds aren't real