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Just on HN I have seen _so many_ claims of "I could rewrite Twitter in a weekend, what were the 5,000 engineers doing, laying off 75% of the employees was the o
by polygamous_bat 4y ago
Just on HN I have seen _so many_ claims of "I could rewrite Twitter in a weekend, what were the 5,000 engineers doing, laying off 75% of the employees was the obvious choice." Apparently, that's not so obvious, huh.
- Pxtl 4y agoI mean you don't have to write it, most of these are just defederated Mastodons with the serial numbers filed off. The problem is that once you've got your private Twitter, it's still expensive and tedious to run for very little benefit other than stoking your own ego.
- shadowgovt 4y agoWarhol's quote was only partially correct. Forget fifteen minutes of fame... In the future, everyone can afford to be their own William Randolph Hearst.
- danpalmer 4y ago> I mean you don't have to write it, most of these are just defederated Mastodons ... still expensive and tedious Exactly this. Mastodon depends on relatively small instances federated together to scale, if you tried to run every current Mastodon user on a single instance it would fall over regardless of how much compute you throw at it. As the network grows it becomes exponentially harder to make it all work. Also, while Mastodon is fine for early adopter use, it's much slower than Twitter and relatively unreliable.
- kgwxd 4y agoCouldn't one entity just run a bunch of small instances and federate them all together?
- danpalmer 4y agoThe federation adds its own kind of complexities, and makes everything less reliable, as well as having a different UX. Mastodon and Federation are intricately linked in terms of design, technology, UX, community, philosophy, and more. I don't think you could build a good centralised Twitter alternative out of it.
- nyolfen 4y agoparler was actually built on wordpress, lol