@jalcine I wonder if there’s a way to lower the barrier to entry for hosting one’s own #ActivityPub compatible server on a device or group of devices. Services like @mastohost make it simple and somewhat affordable to have a private instance but it’s obviously not at that level of ubiquity if folks are still preferring to join other servers rather than make their own.
@jalcine https://beakerbrowser.com/ also comes to mind but where that has the technical side more figured out to a degree, the usability of it is wayyyyyy beyond what non-techies would be willing to deal with at this time.
@jalcine I also had a (potentially very dumb) idea that everyone should be given a domain name based on a hash of their DNA at birth, but not only is that a massive undertaking to consider, but identical twins would have to share or have a different workaround.
@dave @jalcine these systems were not designed at the software architecture level for “ease of individual hosting”.
Basically the entire LAMP stack assumes a multi-tenant database.
And, a lot of self-hosting coders assume “just run a Linux box”.
Some work to do to empower people to run their own software and pick from simpler hosting styles. I think we can get there, but it means writing new code.