Scaling decentralized systems is difficult because everything turns into n^2. Staying in centralized systems is undesirable because everything turns into a government agency. How can we trade off these two unsolvable problems? A new generation of semi-decentralized protocols, like Bluesky and Farcaster, have balanced these two pressures in interesting ways

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