> You can't build a Twitter clone Replacement, not clone; I don't care if it has all the features of Twitter. There are some instances that are more Twitter-l

> You can't build a Twitter clone Replacement, not clone; I don't care if it has all the features of Twitter. There are some instances that are more Twitter-like (e.g. Quitter), but they don't interest me. For me, personally, this has nothing to do with cloning Twitter. For others it might, but I think that is misguided. > in a decentralized way and expect to have good performance on the analytics side I'm not sure that this matters. As a user, I'd prefer that there _not_ be traditional analytics, because centralized services' analytics amount to surveillance. > The power of Twitter is having a single firehose where you can hook and analyze ALL the tweets. Federation doesn't prevent another service from collecting and performing its own analytics on a federation. It certainly wouldn't be as performant, sure---but that's not the issue that we're addressing. A decentralized service is worth any performance cost for many of us.