Thanks for clarifying! So it does work roughly as I was thinking, that's cool!
This gives a brief overview of Scuttlebutt with a link to a more technical breakdown.
That said, I remain confused by the other person's description, as I'm not sure how it's accumulating posts while "disconnected from the Internet". I follow how it works when connected, but not so much how it would work as they've described it, at least in the disconnected circumstances, unless it's sorta how I asked.
It was designed such that a Usenet server could spend most of its time disconnected from the Internet and accumulate local posts that would then be federated in a digest when the server dialed up and connected to other servers.
...Would this have been local posts of an individual, or sometimes a group in a LAN or something? The way you describe it here puts me in the mind of recent stuff like Scuttlebutt, albeit that's more clearly individual-focused.
Then this person is the problem and is projecting harder than a drive-in cinema.
Do their bulbs also burst far too easily?
If they're already manager what do they need leadership coach for?
Another big, lingering question is why Meta wants to do this in the first place. Lambert says Meta wants to give users more control over their posts and followers, with easier avenues to engage across platforms.
So will they be implementing a method to export this data in ways that could be imported to other platforms? Otherwise I don't see where federation fits in here all that much.
Extending reach isn't really the same as control imo.
How would one use it if they're struggling to understand it to start with? 🤨
so it’s not usually financially viable to limit the audience like that [...]
Aren't they already sort of doing so by largely directing them towards children? 🤔
Self-Education (so, /c/selfeducation) seems the most literal alternative that comes to mind, but perhaps others can think of better?
Is there maybe a less technical term for this? It's a good idea, but I think those that may benefit most from it may not necessarily think of themselves with this term.
It may seem like a small detail, but the name itself may serve to limit its reach to only a specific subset of those that teach themselves and seek to teach themselves/continue learning.
Have any publications zoomed out further on this subject to include the book publishers trying to squeeze libraries with the costs of ebook lending? And the attempts to funnel money to private schools via vouchers under the auspices of "school choice"? I'm sure there are many other examples to include, but these are a couple that came to mind.
Written well, it could be a great overview or deep dive, and I suspect there are likely a number of books covering different aspects of this as were relevant at the time of their writing.
I see where you're coming from, I think. In my experiences with trying to follow tutorials though, I've found the difficulty to be between rough explanations and the examples given feeling a little too simple and isolated from how they might be applied in a working program.