Comment from Paul Freeze on Hacker News: Our intent is to make an open social network that is able to scale past 100M users without breaking down, and to debind identity from providers. It is also not necessary for AppViews to index the entire network. Partial syncs of the atmosphere are suitable for realworld usecases.
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