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Preventing enshittification of platforms rests on credible exit for users and devs. #ActivityPub and #SMTP are not perfect but

a) are implemented und understood by many players,

b) enable freedom of choice of servers and clients,

c) implement #RightToMigrate as well as self/community custody

Many #p2p projects promise to remove servers but often promote and depend on a single implementation stack, have no spec and no interop among #p2p islands, and thus struggle to provide credible exit.

Delta Chat hat dies geteilt

do you see any possible future where we won't need servers? cause yes, having many decentralized instances running on servers is already so much better, but wouldn't p2p be even more decentralized and therefore provide more freedom?

or perhaps the server which hosts an instance (mastodon for example) can be somehow democratized so that all of it's users have a say in the decisions usually made by the admin or moderator 🤔
yes, there are futures where servers play less of a role than they do today. We are thinking/prototyping on that.

But already today, #webxdc realtime apps eg at https://delta.chat/en/2024-11-20-webxdc-realtime#pixel-app-small-offline-first-and-realtime are using @n0iroh and thus offer a private #p2p network. Here, the rather reliable #SMTP server network is used to bootstrap lots of little private P2P ones consisting of unstable peers. Without this bootstrapping you need central root servers along with DHTs or other mechanism for discovery.
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Sounds like you want a cooperative, e.g. https://platform.coop/

I work with https://prav.app/ which is forming one such cooperative for XMPP.
maybe and thanks for the link. But we are not exactly aiming to sell platform services at least not in the classical sense.
Activitypub is not designed to be E2E encrypted.
It's better to suggest the nostr protocol because it is E2EE and designed to be censorship resistant.
I like #p2p technologies but I think prefer the possibility to migrate between server.

Like #hubzilla