Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible

• Mastodon

  1,226 46,020 10.0 Ruby

  Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  

There are several reasons why they wouldn't want to associate with a public server.

While the verification green check mark is nice, it is much better to have PR hosted on toot.company.com instead.

Furthermore, there's the "who can see what" - https://restoreprivacy.com/mastodon-privacy-issues-risks/

> Because these messages aren’t end-to-end encrypted, the server owner can read everything in plaintext.

(See also https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079 )

That's a BIG "companies should be hosting their own servers."

• Lemmy

  1,603 12,834 9.8 Rust

  🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

  

> An Open Source implementation of Twitter that is significantly cheaper to run than a Mastodon host that can scale to larger user numbers should be possible. And that being Open Source would potentially permit us to see this work out in practice by letting different communities exist side by side if we can't agree on common rules

Maybe Lemmy [1] with a Twitter UI is worth exploring?

[1] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• plugin-WebOfTrust

  4 54 6.9 Java

  Collaborative spam filter for Freenet. Short overview: https://goo.gl/ZR3zg5 Whitepaper: https://git.io/vXtHN Suppor contact & maintainer: @xor-freenet

  

• FrameworkBenchmarks

  366 7,391 9.8 Java

  Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

  

Why is there no Ruby web framework in the most iconic benchmark [0]?

[0]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#

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