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Mazin | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Gotta say I’m pretty blown away by this response. If the most simple and obvious arguments have no rebuttal, then we indeed desperately need to come up with something better. I assumed those pushing it had at least thought past level 0.

The choice isn’t gossip model or one single database. Look around, what we have now is already much better than that.
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pjv | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sorry I massively oversimplified because I think it's a big picture issue. Of course there is a lot of grey. But essentially there are currently three big picture models. There's one big database (which of course is not really one db, but again simplifying) aka Twitter, there's semi decentralized where independent servers federate aka mastodon, and there's fully decentralized like nostr currently is trying to be for the most part.

I'm not trying to be dismissive or sarcastic. I've tried to come up with something better and I can't. But that doesn't mean someone else couldn't. Maybe you will. I hope you do.