federate

There are a ton of services you can federate with, it's easier for the user less passwords to remember.

What's astounding is that none of the other big companies tried to federate with them.

For me, Single Page Applications are nice for Dashboards or simply pages which federate data and are open for longer sessions.

I suspect that's a big driver for the ongoing push to federate the framework across the major platforms.

Maybe someone will figure out a way to federate them into one big interlinked network without the thing becoming a spam magnet.

The fixed station could federate with an Internet instance as well (which would require more extensive validation to ensure users are licensed operators).

But mailbox.org, fastmail and duckduckgo all federate just fine with each other.

Facebook wants to become the internet, and federate access to external material.

There is no effort made to federate or interoperate between services.

Google has the right to federate and syndicate on your behalf.

The reason the big services don't federate is political, not technical.

> Fortune 500 companies spend months and years building software and databases to federate data to garner insights.

I refuse to accept responsibility for being "the problem" just because you want to federate your annoyance.

"Open source" doesn't have much to do with it:) More substantially, "platform" usually implies centralization, even if your platform can federate.