Re:Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia
by thesuitonym on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:43AM
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That's the thing about human intervention: It can't be hyperscale. I think that's a feature, but until we as a society come to the conclusion that not every aspect of life has to be the biggest and the only, we're not going to get there.
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Re:Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia
by markhahn on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:16PM
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about the not-hyper aspect: aren't you assuming some technical factors? for instance, if you assume a central mechanism capable of conducting a realtime ad auction, then yes, going hyperscale is resource-consuming.
without assuming such centralization, we end up with more distributed, even async networks. I'm not sure such a network would even need to be mainly supported by permanent hosts (like mastodon is). It could use more torrent-like ad-hoc mechanisms.