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> maybe it doesn't need to scale for people to ultimately have a much better experience It certainly needs less features. I'm sure quite a bit of Twitter's inf

• elsjaako 4y ago
  There's also no full text search on Mastodon, and no single server has access to all the posts on the federated system.
• jacquesm 4y ago
  That's a good observation, a federated, non-commercial messaging platform has a different tech footprint than one that needs to be monetized to the max to satisfy a bunch of shareholder and generate quarterly earning reports.
  • cactusplant7374 4y ago
    Plus, it's written in Rails. [0] I love Rails but they could switch to something else and tweak it to the extreme. There were very popular sites in the past (i.e. Slashdot) that didn't have many servers and were extremely performance tuned. [0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon