Nuh 🔻 on Nostr: I hate the word "social media" because it offers no indication of the architecture ...

I hate the word "social media" because it offers no indication of the architecture whatsoever... email is not the same as group chat which is not the same as globally searchable low latency feeds.

Even worse, almost everyone the latest when they say "social media" but immediately start pretending to mean smaller scale and more tolerance to high latency as soon as confronted with the impossibility of making a global searchable low latency feed decentralised.

It reminds me alot of shitcoiners refusing to accept that big and rabidly mined blocks are impossible to decentralize, ans that it is censorship resistant only to the extent that legal arbitrage is working on confused legislators who can't see the centralisation at hand.

ActivityPub is starting to sound wiser than I ever gave it credit before.