ActivityPub supports a less compelling user experience for many people: you only have a partial view of the network (you won’t see all the replies to the posts of people you follow on other servers), no global search, etc
This is how offline social networks work, and it might be fundamentally the only way social networks end up working. If each instance can't filter what it receives, then spam is too easy. If every message is globally flooded, the system scales as O(N^2) and is easily vulnerable to DoS.
Sure, but it shows global replies, it provides global search, it's not O(n^2), it's not easily DOSed, and it's highly amenable to spam filtering, which are the issues you raised.
It's true that this solution doesn't work for private posts and DMs, but the n in O(n^2) is much smaller there, so I don't think it's as much of an issue for personal data servers to communicate directly in those cases.
There's also software called Constellation[0] from microcosm that exclusively collects "backlinks", which are items which link to a certain thing. e.g. follow records for an account, reposts/replies/likes on a post. If you click on the Backlinks tab when examining something on pdsls.dev you can see a list of them.
It can be self hosted and is much lighter than running a full appview. The author has a public endpoint for it that's keeping up with the whole network running on a single raspberry pi on his home network.
It's basically event sourcing. You listen to the data you care about from the network and update the local index (DB). There are also tools like Tap (https://docs.bsky.app/blog/introducing-tap) that do the plumbing work and let you backfill automatically.
> Israel an the US are a single entity when it comes to security matters in the middle east. It was already the de facto regional power
Not independently. At this point, Israel is independently a de facto regional power. The strike in Doha drove that home. (As did the attacks on Iran, which delivered a geostrategic win to Riyadh that Washington was never able to.)
absolutely. it’s even in the design paper, when they discuss the AppView the authors say it’s “less decentralized than alternatives” and yet you can’t say that without bsky fans getting mad.
When you state that "European social safety nets are pretty damn generous" it seems to imply that someone else, rather than the Europeans themselves, is being generous and footing the bill.
• (of a person) showing a readiness to give more of something, as money or time, than is strictly necessary or expected: she was generous with her money.
• showing kindness toward others: it was generous of them to ask her along.
• (of a thing) larger or more plentiful than is usual or necessary: a generous sprinkle of pepper.
Dubai / UAE is about the largest per capita inflow of high net worth individuals, and even on an absolute basis has one of the highest immigration inflow of high net worth individuals.
Yes if you are poor as dirt and can just take your life savings of <$10k (probably 99% of humanity) on an airplane if you need to use it in another country, you can do so no problem and you do not care, the idea of a crypto OTC desk likely does not even occur to you. It is still solving the same problem, but by being small enough that no one cares.
The data pretty well speaks for itself. Humanity with money cares a lot about escaping capital controls. This is inviolable, the more the banking system handicaps itself the more capital flows into less regulated products.
