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Nah, federation is a valid alternative to self hosting
You're going to "own" digital content through...federation? How does that work?
In what way? You don't own anything on the fediverse. The people who run the various instances do.
Maybe they even have a TOS that says you own it, but then what? its still up to them to continue to host it, and they have no contract with you.
Unless you are self hosting your own instance, and only count what is on that, you own no more than with larger social media sites.
To be clear, I think that federations certainly are better than monolithic sources for a variety of reasons for real people, but they aren't a solution for ownership.
disagree. legally a government can forcefully take down a community but it's far more difficult to police a physical ring of pirates.
pirating in the late 90s early 2000s was mostly done through physical interaction. you could download content from places like Napster, limewire, etc, but the volume of which content spread the fastest was at LAN parties.
I filled up a brand new 250gb drive after one LAN party in 2002. I still have all that content 23 years later.
point is, if we could harness the power of a "trust" content sharing would run rampant.
So we should do LAN parties again then!
completely agree.