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> 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
by 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.