• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Federation is an overly complicated solution it’s not required. It also wouldn’t actually help, they can still take it off the app store there’d be another one but they would just play whack-a-mole and you can achieve the same thing with open source.

    The best bet would be to have the database hosted outside the US and just have apps that pull the data from an API. There’s no need for the app itself to store the data in fact that’s a really stupid way to do it. You could federate it if you wanted but honestly that’s probably unnecessary

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      18 hours ago

      Facepalm. If the App does not store the data in a 5 mile radius … how do you at least see the latest status when the power and internet is down?

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        12 hours ago

        I can’t tell if you’re serious or not.

        If the internet is down then I don’t have access to the app store. Also if the internet’s down then the data is going to be out of date almost immediately anyway so any cached version would be useless.