Mastodon is Ruby on the backend ... as was Twitter in the beginning, and Twitter also fell over when it reached a certain size and had to be reimplemented. So p

Mastodon is Ruby on the backend ... as was Twitter in the beginning, and Twitter also fell over when it reached a certain size and had to be reimplemented. So present Mastodon won't scale to Twitter size, no. It's also not the goal, people seem to assume that Mastodon is a Twitter clone that has exactly the same experience and feel the need to post how shocked and disappointed they are when they discover this is not in fact true. Fediverse is a different model for social media which prioritizes decentralization over ease of use, where "ease of use" means being able to easily be spoonfed entertainment in bite-sized pieces. I personally don't feel it will ever be a majoritarian platform and that's perfectly fine. There are plenty of ways for people to find out what BTS is doing and not every platform needs to optimize for this purpose.