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 Like in your own friends-of-friends 10k set, there might be a few total assholes but likely no more than you can manually blacklist and/or figure out which friend-with-bad-judgment they're all coming from?
