> “ These things are all inevitable consequences of federated communications systems.” Only of ones that have historically existed with these flaws. One of th

> “ These things are all inevitable consequences of federated communications systems.” Only of ones that have historically existed with these flaws. One of the reasons I think urbit is cool is that the non zero (but low) ID cost solves this economically making spam non-viable and moderation easy. I was also bummed that federated systems seemed to have these core issues that lead to centralization. It’s also why I think the non-urbit attempts at federation are DOA. To fix this for real you need to fix the entire stack. The problem is upstream from the application layer. Your analysis of the flaws inherent in federated systems is right, but you’re wrong that it’s an inevitable consequence - it turns out there is a way to solve the incentive problem and avoid them.