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It's so funny to me how many people post links to Mastodon just to try and get people to use it on HN. There's literally no value to Mastodon being the linked t
by _2d30 4y ago
It's so funny to me how many people post links to Mastodon just to try and get people to use it on HN. There's literally no value to Mastodon being the linked to piece of content when one could actually link directly to that content! What's worse, it took >10s just to load!
- dewey 4y agoHaving the two line context of the Mastodon post what this post is about is valuable, more than just a headline.
- okamiueru 4y agoAs much as I share a similar disdain for these kinds of things, it loads much faster than any twitter page I've been to in recent years. I also get very different numbers than you: twitter: 3-6 seconds. This mastodon post ~1s
- _2d30 4y agoNothing less important than the comparison to Twitter here.
- okamiueru 4y agoHm, how so? What would be a better comparison be, for discussing the relative page load times of a mastodon page be, in your opinion? If X product exists. Then Y comes and is largely considered an alternative to X, and someone says Y is slow. Does it not make sense to compare it to X?
- _2d30 4y agoBecause Twitter and Mastodon are interchangeable here. If this same person posted the original content as a Tweet and there were a pattern of users posting Twitter links to boost Twitter engagement, the problem would stand.
- okamiueru 4y agoAh, so you're point was more that regardless if its mastodon or twitter, they are both terrible hosting options, and we can do better, like hosting the link itself? Gotcha, and I agree.
- _2d30 4y agoYes, exactly. I was just lamenting the load time as an additional problem with that being the submitted link. I would note as well that the Mastodon instance clearly struggled with the initial load from the HN traffic. Testing its load time when few users from HN were being directed to it won't be a very good benchmark against Twitter.
- okamiueru 4y agoyour*
- riffic 4y agoto be fair a mastodon instance is a pretty heavy rails webapp and having one linked to HN on a monday morning is a significant traffic event.
- _2d30 4y agoYes, agreed, in addition to being utterly useless as an intermediate step between HN and the interesting content OP found, Mastodon is a bad product that doesn't scale.
- riffic 4y agoIn case anyone comes along and believes your assumption, the software scales but you would need to expend the effort to do so: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-scale-your-mastodon-server https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-scal... https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/