I bet they snoop on a lot more than just Snapchat.

Maybe the solution is more on the client side. An app should be able to let the user add communities from different instances and present them as one, maybe even merge comments from identical posts etc. Then if the user gets fed up with some instance not moderating or spamming, the user could then just remove that from his multi list.

Technically there’s no way to please everyone on this, but there’s also no reason why the apps couldn’t present a meta-view of what is actually happening across instances, if that’s what the user prefers. Most users don’t want to see the gears turn.

In addition to the user experience it would also minimize any “damages” from any instance going down, because the multi list would remain active as long as any of the instances are up.

I think it went really well. Better than I expected.

As always, there was something new to think about, so even if I wasted a lot of time I still feel that I learned something from the experience.

Maybe posts were deleted or defederated.

Just use a Chromecast. You can use it from every device (phone/laptop/tablets) on the same WiFi.

It would be nice if governments could make a “software union”, pledging to use the same standards. It seems that everyone is inventing the wheel separately in every country or falling back on commercial industry standards.

F.i. the exchange of financial documents. There’s a standard coming along called SAF-T, and even if it is a standard, every country using it are making their own definitions of what it is. There are also some countries that already have their own completely different standard. The crazy thing is that almost every country worldwide are asking for the exact same info on tax returns, but they’ve all individually come up with that. Only differences is the order of fields on the form.

Same with user identification. Every country has their own almost identical solution for identification, which however does not work across borders, despite the similarities.