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On a technical level, prioritizing big-world indexing over small world networking has multiple benefits. It significantly reduces the load on PDSs, making it easier to self-host — you could easily run your own server. It improves discoverability of content outside of your immediate neighbors — people want to use social media to see content from outside of their network. It improves the quality of experience for everyone in the network — fewer dropped messages or out-of-sync metrics. Given all that, our proposed methodology here of networking through BGSs instead of server-to-server isn’t prescriptive. The protocol is actually explicitly designed to work both ways.