now let’s talk about his thing about the BGS — the aggregators in the network — and whether those are sufficiently decentralized I agree: aggregator nodes have power. not a small amount.

I once wrote a paper about the dynamics of power in social technology that was so pretentious that I’m ashamed to share it now but it was entirely about how authority models get embedded in technological systems and this is a really good example of that. authority pockets exist all over these things

What’s BGS Paul?