Somebody please rewrite that thing over URLs, static site generators, rss and cloud functions. We would loose search (delegated to internet search engines) and

Somebody please rewrite that thing over URLs, static site generators, rss and cloud functions. We would loose search (delegated to internet search engines) and perhaps hashtags (at least for a while) but it would be largely the same for the main features and scalable without need of federation. You would still not be able to edit tweets to some extent, and we would be back to be able to get just the last x tweets for a given user, but for sure we would stop this madness. There are a lot of tradeoffs to be made, but the core functionality to get things working for the core use cases would still be there.