I love decentralization arguments as it is a largely political choice that has concrete technical affordances. We federalized the US government not because it was more efficient (quite the contrary) but because we didn't trust large centralized systems. Then, at scale, it became more efficient.
Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself. Websites can specify whether they consent to outside companies crawling their data with a robots.txt file, and we’re investigating a similar practice here.
Often, in tech, the decision is made for technical reasons (scaling centralization is hard) and the social/political affordances come along instead (or are squashed somewhere else for political/financial reasons).
Nov 27, 2024 16:54
