I thought this is why it's not just mastodon-like, they've said they wanna be able to host a PDS on a raspberry pi... and then have aggregators which are the big expensive scaling part...
splitting it allows more self hosting which means even if you thoroughly suck your identity & content still exists it just loses reach
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