> It does give you (or anybody) the ability to index this data independently, and not miss messages -- which AP doesn't afford. Different tradeoffs!

Someone (or some group) could also in theory go fully content-addressing with their data store, and make content available based on their hash, effectively layering that missing benefit on top of the existing architecture. Someone could probably vibecode this together in some hour(s) :)

Something like radicle? https://radicle.dev/

I do agree that the sweet spot in federated git hosting could be a system merging the features of tangled with the features of radicle

But I have to admit that the design tradeoffs are really different