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Nice, I'm looking forward for something like this. As for the "not a big deal", I get it. But still, it feels overkilling to have a whole instance that has the
by rckt 2y ago
Nice, I'm looking forward for something like this.
As for the "not a big deal", I get it. But still, it feels overkilling to have a whole instance that has the same capabilities as one with thousands of users, just for yourself.
- vidarh 2y agoI mean, I think most of the overkill of Mastodon comes from design choices that stems from building it on Rails. It's possible to do Rails in a lean way, but the "done thing" in Rails is to build a big monolith talking to a full RDBMS, and use Sidekiq for jobs and, and ... I love Ruby, probably more than is good for my sanity (half my desktop stack is written in Ruby), but Rails has always come across to me as overcomplicating things.