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The focus on the client-server frame does seem odd. Didn’t quite get what that was about. No fundamental showstopper there, though full or even sharded nodes are unlikely to run on phone class devices. But the network edge 1 hope away can and will get a lot better.
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Anchoring on “people will not run their own servers” is odd. Strikes me as a case of “confidence at the wrong abstraction level.” I no longer even know what a “server” is in a world with options ranging from RPis to E2E encrypted-link cloud urbit servers.
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Logging an idea that seems important for future reference. A lot of shaky thinking is marked by what @bysl referred to as “confidence at the wrong abstraction level”
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Iiuc, his point is that if you want to be part of the network in a decentralized, trustless fashion, you have to run a node, which is like running a server. If you don't want the hassle, you need to trust 2-3 centralized API companies that don't even sign the responses.
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