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So Gab's strategy (fork Mastodon) looks solid for security but they hit performance issue because Mastodon isn't made for such scale.

• gargron 6y ago
  Mastodon scales horizontally until PostgreSQL becomes the bottleneck: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/
  • slim 6y ago
    they needed a platform that would not need to scale before the database server becomes a bottleneck