This is closer to a shower thought, given I don’t really know much about how ActivityPub works. Has anyone, or is it even possible to, made an instance designed to work as say a FUSE file system?
I was mostly just thinking about how hard UIs are to make and thought “what if the content was the UI”.
Isn’t this essentially what IPFS is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
Doesn’t this sound like Usenet?
The Fediverse and classical Usenet are so similar IMO. I think Usenet is just so old that nobody outside of pirates is familiar with it.
Nextcloud can have some sort of federation: https://nextcloud.com/federation/
I find the idea kind neat, but not very useful
Everything is possible, look at this video called Harder Drive for examples of this sort of thing being done.
There used to be (and probably still are) entire youtube channels of apparent static or random shapes that turned out to be massive amounts of data stored as video.
Somebody made πfs, so I don’t see why ActivityPubFs wouldn’t be technically possible
Oooh, I like the idea!
The thing you’re looking for exists and is called IPFS. Imagine fuse mounting BitTorrent. Actually, the fuse part is a minor feature, but it exists.
Pretty sure that’s exactly what IPFS is, it’s a distributed filesystem, although it’s also a Blockchain-based technology so it comes with that baggage
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think IPFS itself is tied to a blockchain. That said, the creators seem to be involved in a lot of crypto stuff (including creating Filecoin on top of IPFS), so it does have blockchain baggage attached to it.
