> On a technical level, prioritizing big-world indexing over small world networking has multiple benefits.
It does ... if every node interacts with every other node on behalf of every one of its users. But if a PDS at pds.example.net mostly interacts with the fifty or so instances where its users have contacts while rarely to never interacting with 10,000 other instances, it doesn't need the BGS firehose, and it can integrate "app views" for its users directly into the same server.
@simsa04 @geniusmusing If they did, their instance(s) would rapidly become the largest. They would be the “center of gravity” that endangers the health of every #federated network in which they appear.
However, I think that, freed from the distraction of #Musk and the public attention of #Twitter, they would rather focus on proving that a network built upon their #AT_Protocol is viable.