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What features should a cross-domain open bulletin board have? (feddit.org)
submitted 1 week ago by ki4jgt@feddit.org to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I love the Fediverse -- don't get me wrong--, but the fact that Lemmy was built atop a profile-oriented streaming stack, and that server moderators get to decide what servers your personal identity gets to interact with, doesn't sit right with me.

On a whim, a moderator could decide to defederate with one of your favorite servers for no reason at all.

I'm envisioning a server that authenticates you to other servers, accepts notifications to your personal inbox, and hosts its own forums.

One that can whitelist acceptable authentication servers, but doesn't restrict the notifications to your inbox. And doesn't restrict you from signing in elsewhere.

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[-] ki4jgt@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

The server moderator creates the community, or gives users permission to create communities on their server. I have no problem with that model.

Hosting servers basically have 4 functions:

  • Registering users
  • Authenticating users to other servers
  • Hosting forums
  • Pushing/Receiving notifications

Let's say you're running server at example.com, and I sign up. My username is bob. So, I'm bob@example.com.

Example.com has several local forums, but they lack a significant tech community. So, I go to example2.com, which has a large tech community. Using my login from example.com (and postMessages), I login to example2.com, as bob@example.com. Example2.com has example.com whitelisted as a valid authenticator. So, it will accept their users.

Let's then say that Bob gets a reply at example2.com. Example2.com pushes a notification to example.com, where Bob can read it.

this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2026
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