Since the system is “decentralized”, this message is copied to all subscribers. If the poster has 100 “friends” then 100 copies go out, similar to an email with 100 recipients. However, the message continues to be replicated to subscribers of the subscribers.
That’s just plain wrong, it only gets replicated to subscribers of the subscribers if they boost it. Which is completely fine, I don’t think all of this is a problem.
Their test of simply following everyone is really dumb, since 8000 follows are like an instance of 100 people (maybe even more, I don’t know how much the follows tend to overlap, if people follow the same accounts)… I wonder which footprint his medium article has.
It’s not the first time that I’ve seen a criticism like this article, so this might be a talking point amongst a certain crowd. The slight of hand is that they never mention the shared inbox, or the additional processing which the centralized systems do to serve ads and categorize users.
That’s just plain wrong, it only gets replicated to subscribers of the subscribers if they boost it. Which is completely fine, I don’t think all of this is a problem.
Their test of simply following everyone is really dumb, since 8000 follows are like an instance of 100 people (maybe even more, I don’t know how much the follows tend to overlap, if people follow the same accounts)… I wonder which footprint his medium article has.
It’s not the first time that I’ve seen a criticism like this article, so this might be a talking point amongst a certain crowd. The slight of hand is that they never mention the shared inbox, or the additional processing which the centralized systems do to serve ads and categorize users.