> Mastodon and the broader ActivityPub (AP) network offer little hope here. Everything lived on that server.
> we don't all run our own copy of the entire stack
Why can't we do just that in a user-friendly way?
What if every user had all their content stored locally on a (or multiple) device, whether that's their phone, a desktop, server, anything, just something that keeps a local copy of their data and then federates that with other servers... that way they can always easily move wherever they want, and the data is still visible from some other server so they don't have to run their own.
> we don't all run our own copy of the entire stack
Why can't we do just that in a user-friendly way?
What if every user had all their content stored locally on a (or multiple) device, whether that's their phone, a desktop, server, anything, just something that keeps a local copy of their data and then federates that with other servers... that way they can always easily move wherever they want, and the data is still visible from some other server so they don't have to run their own.