Practical Decentralization(pfrazee.com)
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Practical Decentralization
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Federation: focuses on diffusing responsibility
P2P: everyone is responsible for their part of it
Atproto: you should be able to choose how much responsibility you actually need or want while mitigating risk through competing stacks and credible exit
P2P: everyone is responsible for their part of it
Atproto: you should be able to choose how much responsibility you actually need or want while mitigating risk through competing stacks and credible exit
Never heard the phrase "magical mesh" to describe certain types of p2p before.
Good name.
Good name.
https://blue.mackuba.eu/stats/
https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
> We need to finish moving PLC into an independent org
Does not make it decentralized; instead creates a second centralized failure point.
> large scale “appviews” — the aggregating backends of apps — are still a bit too expensive and a bit too difficult to write
Which is an architectural limitation, because AppViews must store the entire network, and will only get worse.
It’s really weird to say that BlueSky is an example of “practical decentralization” when all of its decentralization serves no practical purpose at all.