Considering the dial one turns when building social software, between emphasis on people and emphasis on the spaces they occupy.
Compare being "in" a channel or rooms vs. "following" an individual. Systems focus on one or the other (yet always support both: DMs and privmsg; hashtags and groups)
Anyway this all needs to be rebuilt atop matrix.org or something because content addressing. Seriously it's 2017 and we're back at "overloaded server, can't load". Not even like zooko's triangle.
@graydon content addressing ~= magnet links for toots?
@Gankro chained history graph => same data no matter where you pull it from (bonus: these days p2p in the browser works too)
@graydon does that force some kind of transitivity of federation?
e.g. if neutral.site communicates with nazis.site, do I have to transmit nazi.site's content to transmit netural.site's?
@Gankro My general feeling on this is that we should build for the "friend-of-friend" threshold (and not friend-of-friend-of-friend): i.e. assuming each person has order-100 friends, you handle order-10,000 people's traffic, which is probably fine on a modern machine. There'll be plenty of redundancy, and not _much_ room for abuse.
@graydon well, hmm... the fact that some accounts are massively followed isn't inherently problematic.
It's accounts that follow a lot that are problematic to this metric. The most extreme examples I have in my twitter follows are people with ~2000 follows, but that's fine as long as those are scarce...
Although it sucks for them and their computer?
