“let’s make a system where there are three sources of truth and it’s super easy for them to get out of sync!” - very smart and empathetic engineers
USER: Why can't we have [feature Q]
BLUESKY: It's not possible because this is a distributed system and that makes implementing that feature very hard
USER: But Mastodon has had the feature since 2017
BLUESKY: Anyway here's a DM system, a bookmark system, and a find-by-contacts feature that bypass the distributed system and work off a centralized server we run
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