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 "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 2 comments
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
"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.