Gregory's Server
@simon_lucy You miss the point. Scale doesn’t even matter if Big Social pulls the plug on the service.
On the Fediverse, that will never happen.
Whatever scaling benefits you believe come from centralization ultimately means jack if the service lacks persistence. Which eventually is going to happen for Big Social—it’s always a matter of time.
Meanwhile, the Fediverse is now sending 1 billion messages per month. And it’s doing this because 22,000+ instances are federating right now.
@atomicpoet
At which point did I say centralisation?
You're using the term scaling in an entirely inappropriate way.
How many of those billion messages are unique? How many get to be viewed or themselves cause further messages. Just spouting numbers out of context makes no sense.
Scale always matters and it makes no difference whether it's what you call centralised, single ownership, or multiple individual ownership.