When IDF apologists accuse me of being a Jew-hater and Hamas apologists accuse me of being a Zionist for opposing the murder of children it does not, I assure everyone, convince me that I’m wrong.
@HeavenlyPossum You claim a moral symmetry, not a military one. This completely ignores the fact that there would be no murdering of kids at all without 10/7. And ignores the fact that the murdering of kids will go on forever if Hamas is not stopped, because they are not interesting of the well-being of any kids, including there own.
I like ActivityPub and the decentralized social Web as much as the next person but we all know that scalability is a massive problem and I haven't seen too many convincing approaches to fix that. So let's not pretend this is just a magic silver bullet.
Blogs and the web didn't scale to actual web traffic (which admittedly many blogs never needed), centralized caches and services were necessary for this stuff to work. Which is exactly why we got so much centralization.
Solving that for decentralized social networks is the core issue.
@tante some of these scalability problems are actually features. The attempt to build one social network for everybody is dommed for failure not for technical but for social reasons.