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1. ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 09:30:42 UTC ar.al🌻

   If you don’t want to become that which you despise, you must design your systems accordingly.

   Multi-user federated servers are inherently open to economies of scale and thus to embrace, extend & extinguish.

   Fediverse servers should be designed _so they cannot scale beyond a certain size_ to ensure no node becomes a centre.

   If your aim is to devolve wealth/power/control, vertical scale is your failure mode. If you want to raise mini Zuckerbergs, by all means, scale on…

   #fediverse #smallTech

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   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 18:02:01 UTC Tagomago

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     @aral Been saying this since 2017... Then again, that'd be easy to circumvent/"fix", I gather.