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It's not meant to scale imho


It is certainly meant to scale, it's an eventually consistent decentralized database. Centralized services historically have difficulty in scaling, but distributed and decentralized are by design easier. In Scuttlebutt, we don't need to have everything connected to everything, so it easily scalable. You just need to give up the idea of a global singleton, global search indexes, that type of stuff.




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