@rory
Yeah this is the kind of problems I have no knowledge about but can potentially prevent any form of decentralization within OSM. I'd love it if this simple question evolved into a more elaborate thread
@Ca_Gi @Antanicus @feonixrift What do you mean by "internal chat"?
#OSM uses many communication channels (IRC, mailing lists, slack, twitter, telegram, mastodon (ie here)), the OSM user diaries, OSM private messages. In theory you could try to "federate" them, but they are a tiny tiny tiny part of OSM, and nothing to do with edits, or the map data. So I'm not sure what benefit it would bring? And the main thing (the data) would still be centralized.
@rory I mean the discussion platform on openstreetmap.org Yes, the data would stay centralized, but is the only implementation that I see of ActivityPub with OSM. Decentralize the map database could also be interesting but I think that that will bee too complex for AP. @Antanicus @feonixrift
@Antanicus I think that the internal chat could be easily federated. Or no? @rory @feonixrift