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Also worth noting that it's a fork of Mastodon and they didn't comply with the license requirement initially [1]. Boggles my mind that they didn't just make a

by Pooge 5y ago

Also worth noting that it's a fork of Mastodon and they didn't comply with the license requirement initially [1]. Boggles my mind that they didn't just make a new instance to be part of the federation, instead of... reinventing the wheel. [1]: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-medi...

throwaway4good 5y ago
How well would Mastodon scale? If this is as succesful as Trump was on Twitter, it will draw tens of millions of users in a short time. Probably more than there ever has been on Mastodon.
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  Well signup is currently rate limited so its not like they can handle 10 million users on day one neither. It's still mastodon code, and it's pretty hypocritical/weird that they have a closed fork where they kick you off if you're deemed untruthful. They could have added capacity to the existing network and actually delivered on the anarchy/free speech angle.
  - throwaway4good 5y ago
    Basing it on Mastodon sounds like a lot of trouble for a high-volume, high-attention, deeply controversial project like this.
    - jazzyjackson 5y ago
      how do you mean? it seems like the least amount of trouble if the alternative is writing your own platform from scratch.
      - throwaway4good 5y ago
        You know that it needs to scale to a non-trivial number of users from scratch. So I would design for that (ie. not use a relational database like postgresql). And you know that it is going to be controversial. So any sort of legal open source mumbojombo is going to be an issue and will be used against the project. And the federation features; that is just going to be an attack vector for spammers or hackers. Any way curious to see what it becomes, and hear how it is actually implemented, if that ever gets out.

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Also worth noting that it's a fork of Mastodon and they didn't comply with the license requirement initially [1]. Boggles my mind that they didn't just make a

by Pooge 5y ago

throwaway4good 5y ago
How well would Mastodon scale? If this is as succesful as Trump was on Twitter, it will draw tens of millions of users in a short time. Probably more than there ever has been on Mastodon.
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  Well signup is currently rate limited so its not like they can handle 10 million users on day one neither. It's still mastodon code, and it's pretty hypocritical/weird that they have a closed fork where they kick you off if you're deemed untruthful. They could have added capacity to the existing network and actually delivered on the anarchy/free speech angle.
  - throwaway4good 5y ago
    Basing it on Mastodon sounds like a lot of trouble for a high-volume, high-attention, deeply controversial project like this.
    - jazzyjackson 5y ago
      how do you mean? it seems like the least amount of trouble if the alternative is writing your own platform from scratch.
      - throwaway4good 5y ago
        You know that it needs to scale to a non-trivial number of users from scratch. So I would design for that (ie. not use a relational database like postgresql). And you know that it is going to be controversial. So any sort of legal open source mumbojombo is going to be an issue and will be used against the project. And the federation features; that is just going to be an attack vector for spammers or hackers. Any way curious to see what it becomes, and hear how it is actually implemented, if that ever gets out.