“We rebuilt the Mastodon backend from scratch and made it able to handle Twitter-scale (500M users, 20M writes/second, unbalanced social graph, etc.)”

Congratulations, you reinvented Big Tech.

Did you stop to consider that fediverse (emphasis “diverse”) servers should not be trying to reach “Twitter scale?” That they should be kept small on purpose? That the goal isn’t to recreate Twitter but with some other asshole in charge?

(Of course, it’s a VC-backed startup.)

redplanetlabs.com/mastodon-clo

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@aral I never once thought about the fedi (even in the gnu social days) like "I wish this thing would do half a billion users with no issues." That kind of thinking is growth obsession dressed as an attractive engineering challenge.

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