183 - The federated web is not what you think

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I'm traveling in the coming weeks have bought myself

- Travel router GL-AXT1800

- Private internet access VPN

I will be talking about how I get on with these upon my return.

The federated web is not all sunshine and rainbows

What is the federated web

okta.com/uk/blog/2019/05/what-is-federation-and-why-should-your-apps-support-it/

9 dark secrets of the federated web

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3676590/9-dark-secrets-of-the-federated-web.html

Benefits of the federated web

Own your own data
Choose the community/server you care about
Support that community
Privacy benefits
- No single company owns both the server and the client
No ads (Yet)
Competition
Open source
- Trust in the code base
The network will survive if your server drops

Negatives of the federated web

Many servers, Many admins and many problems
Fragmented experiences
Duplicated data is unsafe data
Logs logs logs. At scale this isn’t cheap
Stay off the block chain
The admins are sysadmins not just community admins

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