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> An Open Source implementation of Twitter that is significantly cheaper to run than a Mastodon host that can scale to larger user numbers should be possible. A
by Dowwie 4y ago
> An Open Source implementation of Twitter that is significantly cheaper to run than a Mastodon host that can scale to larger user numbers should be possible. And that being Open Source would potentially permit us to see this work out in practice by letting different communities exist side by side if we can't agree on common rules
Maybe Lemmy [1] with a Twitter UI is worth exploring?
[1] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- mdaniel 4y agoHeh, I'd get a kick out of seeing "twitter with downvotes" but one would have to admit that those two sites have a vastly different mental model and thus I wouldn't expect just a reskin to get it done
- Dowwie 4y agoLemmy is an engine. The Reddit UI was their first UI, and the PhpBB UI their second. Seems like a Twitter clone UI is completely within the reach of the engine, too.