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Paul Frazee, maker of the late Beaker Browser, a browser with p2p via Dat, started and is CTO at Bluesky, doing atproto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_(web_browser)

They have a great talk about solving for scale. I feel like atproto has really tackled so many of the incredible challenges of getting p2p to work, by honing in on exactly these sorts of questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoJnj2yPf14

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atproto is not p2p and will never be. ...if thats why ppl adopt it, they essentially got scammed.

p2p has lots of challenges but many are cultural and social and related to funding and changes in UX, but the technical side is pretty much battle tested and production ready and working.

again, paul pfrazee is the creator of beaker browser - one dat ecosystem project among many, so he is of course entitled to his opinion

Just pick the right technologies for the right problems. If your scale is entirely interpersonal - small orgs, friends, family devices - then p2p is much more likely to be a good choice.

at any point in time, a person can only read so much scrolling through their feed and follow thousands.

try keet.io and join rooms woth 20k+ members. works without problems.

even having millions of followers isnt a different problem to torrenting a popular archive.

p2p absolutely scales and excels when the amount of users is massive.

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