Comment by flaburgan

2 days ago

The solution to this problem is known and implemented already: the social web should be distributed between thousands of pods which should contain at the maximum a few thousands users. Diaspora is already working like this for 15 years. It is technically harder to build initially but it then divide all the problems (maintenance, moderation, load, censorship, trust of the owner...) Which makes the network much more resilient. Bluesky knows that and they are allowing other people to host their software but they are really not pushing for it and it highly doubt that the experience of a user on a small external pod is the same than on bluesky.com.

This particular problem will still exist for a fediverse server. You follow 10k people? Nice, now you're getting ddos'd by their activities. Though, most fediverse servers being monolithic applications definitely helps.