> It's a complicated problem to solve at any meaningful degree of scale. I doubt this is necessarily true. Modern social media is complex engineering specifica

> It's a complicated problem to solve at any meaningful degree of scale. I doubt this is necessarily true. Modern social media is complex engineering specifically because of the demands of the Panopticon department for determining your users' underwear color for your advertisers. If your software is for political community and/or propaganda purposes and not for the benefit of advertisers, I'd bet anything that your technical complexity drops by an absolutely enormous factor. You're CRUDing text, images, and social graph data, maybe you're storing videos in an s3 bucket. And you're probably doing some basic sharding and caching.