@mat while I appreciate this approach, and I think it is an important approach, I don't think the shape of plumbing should be ignored.
Google and Microsoft had been trying to centralized e-mail, and even though they succeeeded admirably at getting a lot of people on their infra, I still get to run my own mailserver and have mail delivered.
Yet I think it would be hard to argue that e-mail has any specific culture.
@mat ah, see, this bit:
> But seen through a political lens, labellers do the most important work. They define and implement policy. Everything else in the system is a dumb pipe.
But it is not.
> the Relay performs some initial data cleaning (discarding malformed updates, filtering out illegal content and high-volume spam)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239
So it is very much not a dumb pipe. It does define and implement *some* policy.