@erincandescent @ariadne My understanding is that Identity Servers allow you to more easily change home servers?
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oh okay then@ariadne Was more wondering from the usage side, eg Mastodon is confederated because identities belong to instances, but Matrix is federated because identities are maintained separately.
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oh okay then@ariadne Nice. I'm assuming distributed protocol? What form? Federated, confederated, etc
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oh okay then@ariadne If this is serious, I'd love to help out
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Something that makes me annoyed about computing is that two systems can’t just talk to each other without prior coordination anymore.@risottobias @alex often some form of framing, thoroughly detailed optionals, forecasting the needs of users and capturing their complexity in someway(s).
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Something that makes me annoyed about computing is that two systems can’t just talk to each other without prior coordination anymore.@risottobias @alex one way to visualize it is you get horizontal branching instead of more linear branching over time
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Something that makes me annoyed about computing is that two systems can’t just talk to each other without prior coordination anymore.@risottobias @alex kind of not really. When you design a forward-compatible system, it has a foundation that eliminates the need for backwards compatibility
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Something that makes me annoyed about computing is that two systems can’t just talk to each other without prior coordination anymore.@risottobias @alex The thing is, it's possible to design systems that are forward compatible. It's hard, but that's not a reason against doing it.