I hope we don't start hearing stories of a few bullies rugging the whole village

franzap

Yep, the Federated OS sounds like empty marketing, but I think the intention is to create system where specific folks (=guardians) in a given community are running "servers" that serve each community. So for example one person in a village would run Fedimint, Chat server and LN node and all people in the village would connect to this person using Fedi. 

nout

bitcoin

Fedi Alpha Is Now Available For Testing

AR0w

From the [Github repo](https://github.com/fedibtc/fedi-alpha):

>Fedi is the world's first glimpse of a Federated OS, a home for your money, chat, and data.

What does "Federated OS" even mean? I don't see anything about distributed computing, so it's definitely not that.

And why is it called an "OS" when it's currently just a phone app? The earliest versions of Linux could run on bare metal, but not this Federated OS. Has the startup term MVP come to mean "Minimally Pitch-able Product"?