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 Now, could we handle a million self hosted users? Is it possible? No problem in message passing. EXPLOSIVE with atproto. What if we had a million users and added just 5 more? How many more messages must the network bear? 5 new messages in message passing. 3 comments
"But Christine", you may say, "I heard gossip might fix this!" No. It cannot. In fact, I was being more generous than a gossip network, and assumed you only *received* a message once. With gossip you might *receive* more than once. But you need to receive a message to know it. ATProto was designed for a "big world" view. That's fine! But I'm trying to show seriously what happens if it was actually, really decentralized. *Every* fully participating node added to the network makes the network explosively more expensive. ATProto doesn't scale towards decentralization. |
Gregory's Server
"Christine that's ridiculous, we're not expecting a million self-hosted users"
Well I think it would be nice!
But regardless, ActivityPub has 27,000 servers on it, all meaningfully participating in the network.
ATProto, in its current design, would be crushed to DEATH