Just wanted to ask your opinion before I waste too much time in a new open source project that nobody wants.
Lemmy, Mastodon and Co are federated but users are concentrated on a few large instances which somewhat contradicts the original idea.
What do you think of a truly decentralised app where each instance is one user.
I am aware that there many reasons why this is a bad idea but I would like to hear from you why I should leave it, or encourage me to try it out.
The main problem here is persistance. Most users are on machines that get turned off. I could kinda see it for chat. If you think about walkie talkies people on on or not. A chat where each instance was a user would be like that. You get on and participate or not. CB’s even have channels yeah.
This! It only works if you have a server that’s online 24/7. Can be a VPS in a data centre, can be some Raspberry Pi running at your home with a DNS name pointing to it.
I did not mean to run locally. Every user has to deploy somewhere (like Hetzner) with public domain, tls, etc. Deployment should be simplified with a single command. But still the user has to create an account, buy a domain and needs to be somewhat familiar with command line.
Sounds like a good idea if you want to have around 5 active users.
Sorry for the sarcasm but I don’t like the idea that only people privileged with a VPS can join.
No worries :) it is very likely true. Alternatively I could think of a managed option where each user has an instance in a separate container with separate sqlite database and with different subdomain.