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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 21:14:27 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Jens Comiotto-Mayer

   @jens Wish I’d been clearer in the post: #ActivityPub will definitely scale the way #BigTech like #Meta/#P92 need it to.

   In fact, at its core, any protocol – no matter how inefficient – that assumes hierarchy where one group is ruled over by another inherently favours centralisation. And Big Tech can always throw money at the problem as well as “optimise” protocols to improve economies of scale.

   The alternative is #SmallWeb/p2p, where every node is equal.

   https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

   #SmallTech

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     Jens Comiotto-Mayer (jens@coma.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 21:14:28 JST Jens Comiotto-Mayer

     One thing I'm wondering, aside from any ideological viewpoints: Does #ActivityPub scale the way new potential giants like #Meta/#P92 would need it to? I remember some bigger accounts already having put a lot of pressure on #Fediverse/#Mastodon instances (i.e., see https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/ by @aral@ar.al), and that would be nowhere near of what to expect…

     Protocol wise, it just doesn't look like a good fit to me. Any insights or thoughts here?