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As far as I know Mastodon (which Fosstodon uses) was written from scratch. Since it's in Ruby, not PHP, it's not likely a fork of StatusNet. Mastodon used OStat

by Kye 5y ago

As far as I know Mastodon (which Fosstodon uses) was written from scratch. Since it's in Ruby, not PHP, it's not likely a fork of StatusNet. Mastodon used OStatus for a little while before switching to ActivityPub, but that's about as much connection as I've seen. There was some weird attempt at rivalry from some factions of the OStatus fediverse, but the AP crowd mostly didn't take the bait, and I don't think anyone notable on either side took it seriously.

byanyothrname 5y ago
My mistake. Twitter and Mastodon are written with Ruby on Rails. Mastodon looks like it was released about 10 years after Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_microblogging_and_similar_services#Features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_microblogging_an... Mastodon logo; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_mascot_vect... W3C SOLID > #design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project)#Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr... Solid protocol > Authentication, Considerations > Privacy, Societal Impact; https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol - presumed benevolence of early-adopter swarm; and costs - [ ] can anyone delete already-federatedly-propagated-and-decrypted messages with any federated messaging system? Which are desirable? The e.g. Cyph pricing page - which has a free option - may indicate their cost structure for e2e voice/video and editable, revision-tracked and centrally-dated signed 'tweets', https://schema.org/Article https://schema.org/Article > NewsArticle, ScholarlyArticle, SocialMediaPosting > [BlogPost, DiscussionForumPosting], [AdvertiserContentArticle]
- Kye 5y ago
  I'm not sure what any of this has to do with the issues of scaling Mastodon during a burst of growth.

by Kye 5y ago

byanyothrname 5y ago

My mistake. Twitter and Mastodon are written with Ruby on Rails. Mastodon looks like it was released about 10 years after Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_microblogging_and_similar_services#Features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_microblogging_an... Mastodon logo; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_mascot_vect... W3C SOLID > #design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project)#Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr... Solid protocol > Authentication, Considerations > Privacy, Societal Impact; https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol - presumed benevolence of early-adopter swarm; and costs - [ ] can anyone delete already-federatedly-propagated-and-decrypted messages with any federated messaging system? Which are desirable? The e.g. Cyph pricing page - which has a free option - may indicate their cost structure for e2e voice/video and editable, revision-tracked and centrally-dated signed 'tweets', https://schema.org/Article https://schema.org/Article > NewsArticle, ScholarlyArticle, SocialMediaPosting > [BlogPost, DiscussionForumPosting], [AdvertiserContentArticle]

Kye 5y ago
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with the issues of scaling Mastodon during a burst of growth.