This is not chaos
It's also not decentralized
Spot the single control point
Discussion
"but TF you can have multiple of those single control points"
No, no you can't when the single control point must ingest the entire network
At best the single control point moves to the AppViews... at $$$ cost (who pays?)
"parallel networks" = build yourself a Twitter, nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9us2xuyp was right
I'm not saying that this system will be a social negative
I think quite probably the *opposite*
It's just not decentralized or even decentralize-able 😄
So it's something else
Something without a name
Centralized with plugin architecture
Looks interesting, can you elaborate on the context?
I'm not sure which components are redundant here, but my guess would be the AppView because:
"An App View is the piece that actually assembles your feed and all the other data you see in the app"
So it seems that if the App View is down, you don't see your feed.
Of course, if your PDS is down you won't get any new messages either.
If a PDS can subscribe to multiple App Views, and it will catch up after it has been down (as opposed to just missing those messages/events), then that doesn't seem too bad.
Feed generators and labelers appear to be optional, though not much is said about them.
The way I see it (I'm thinking along the lines of deplatforming more than outages)...
Theoretically the AppViews are replaceable (assuming they're open source)
If the relay blocks your PDS and you connect to another relay, you need the entire rest of the architecture to also connect to that other relay to maintain your apps and frens
Each relay ingests the entire network
Each component ingests the entire network from each relay
So that's double the resources per component for 99.9999999% of the same data
Who is going to pay for that 🤔
I think it would have to be the new relay provider
Then where is the demand coming from to cover those costs
Is it the AppView?
I think in theory you could swap out the AppView your PDS is connected to and everything would stay the same
But you couldn't do that with a relay. You'd need all the other architecture to connect to the new relay in order to maintain your apps and frens
Every component depends upon the relay
Oh okay, thank you!