We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers.
This is pretty big too, as the cost and legal risks of hosting this user content is high. They’ve clearly thought about the media moderation problems too:
We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol.
This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors; they could self-host these tools if they choose to do so, or share the infrastructure with other servers for better efficiency.
It reads like they’re basically making an alternative to
picts-rs, or am I missing some key difference?Isn’t picts-rs just something that runs on one server and just handles converting and resizing images? The new remote media storage stuff could run that, but the point is to allow more centralised servers so not every instance needs to individually store, process and transmit media.
Not just media, things like searching the Fediverse can be handled by a dedicated server, shared (or not) by multiple servers. Also spam detection, link preview generation, etc.
Ah, so it’s more like Imgur for the fediverse. I imagine it would be possible for multiple servers to share a picts-rs instance, even if in practice it never happens.
Who finances the Sovereign Tech Agency?
The Sovereign Tech Agency is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation and is a subsidiary of SPRIND, the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation.
https://www.sovereign.tech/faq#who-finances-the-sovereign-tech-agency
Clients need to make it more obvious which are private messages. Some only display a tiny icon, adding fear and uncertainty as to whether you’re replying to a public post or a private message.
