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    2 days ago

    While I’m all for having local services like search engines. I don’t think we need more “messaging platform” services. At least not new complete platforms. I’d argue something like a Canadian popularized Matrix host or something.

    Full disclosure, I’m American but fully support not depending on us. We fucking suck.

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        Quick question, what would federation provide? How would they have anything to do with a search engine?

        Do you mean just not centralized/run by big tech? If so, that wouldn’t necessarily be “federated”, but just self hostable. That way you can host it yourself, if you have the know how/equipment, or you can access someone else’s hosted version (probably for a price).