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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@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.

@thenexusofprivacy @nyquildotorg

@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)
arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239

So it is very much not a dumb pipe. It does define and implement *some* policy.

@thenexusofprivacy @nyquildotorg