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I yearn to be free to interact with other people and machines any way I want, and without my activities being surveilled or capitalized upon. To that end, federation is looking more and more attractive to me.
I often run into the issue of wanting to share images, videos and other files with family and friends, but I don't want to push them to cloud services that I don't control. I could spin up my own web server and serve content from there, but I'm not well-versed in running web servers, and I'd be worried about misconfiguring something and exposing myself to malicious actors.
Services like Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube aim to solve those issues in a federated way, and since I can host instances myself, I can remain in complete control over who can access them and how. That is quite an appealing prospect.
Once I convert my hypervisor from VMWare to Xen, I'll probably spin up a few federated services and properly join the Fediverse.
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[Last updated: 2021-10-28]