How To Code Well

183 - The federated web is not what you think

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- Private internet access VPN 

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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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