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@darius @cwebber i think the closest i get to answering your question is this:

> No longer will we have to ham-fist our modes of relation into artifacts like blockchains or instances, gluing brittle access schemes atop them. By virtue of decades of compounded effort and expertise, we will at last able to code decentralized programs with nuanced permissions from the outset.

crows call me breadlady

@darius @cwebber that is to say, we have a kind of behavioral cap imposed by the limitations of popular programs, their standards and the associated technologies. with mastodon, we are left with artifacts like the *instance* that reflect the limitations of HTTP and DNS. to achieve a different architecture, possibly to escape HTTP and DNS entirely, we need different plumbing. until we have that plumbing, we're stuck with federation as we know it -- and not because it's bulletproof.