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 @cwebber That's what I like about the Fediverse and its projects. They're basically self-contained, with very little base maintenance cost, even those engines on the heavier side, like Mastodon or Misskey. Leaves more leeway for horizontal scaling, more people can afford it. Bluesky kinda looks designed by billionaires for other billionaires. 3 comments
@Claire Nah, Fedi has its fair share of issues. Loss of identity on the server loss is one of them. It might be mitigated by migrations and/or replications but I haven't seen anyone do this so far. @Claire @drq @cwebber the architecture of atproto kind of presumes that there is value/utility in "full world" indices: ability to search and find strangers with no social-graph-connection across the network. I don't think all (or even much at all) social web stuff needs to end up in that bucket! but that bucket is going to exist in the world and have an impact. I love the AP social outcomes, but if AP doesn't provide for big-world broadcast, Twitter will continue to have a role in society |
Gregory's Server
@drq @cwebber i get why you'd design things like this tbh, that neatly solves a lot of issues, or at least make them a lot easier to deal with
you can much more easily reason about complete up-to-date information without a need for custom update logic and strategies; comparatively, current-world ActivityPub is a mess in that regard
but a world where everything is public, shared and mediated by a world-knowing entity (even if it can “easily” be replaced with an equivalent one) is not what i'm looking for
@drq @cwebber i get why you'd design things like this tbh, that neatly solves a lot of issues, or at least make them a lot easier to deal with
you can much more easily reason about complete up-to-date information without a need for custom update logic and strategies; comparatively, current-world ActivityPub is a mess in that regard