We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
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We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
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Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
#2I would argue that this is not "a Mastodon instance", since it is not running Mastodon - other than that, very very neat work! I'm excited for that "Source Code" link to be live :)
Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
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Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
#4the group involved here may want to be mindful of the Mastodon gGmbH trademarks. Using the Mastodon logo on redplanetlabs.com to pitch a reimplementation of ActivityPub might be seen as infringing.
https://joinmastodon.org/trademark
removed part about the mastodon subreddit since this is clearly not about the Mastodon software per se.
Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
#5Headline: "building Twitter at Twitter-scale"
Article: "building Mastodon at sub-Twitter-scale"
Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
#6The performance on the example Mastodon instance is very responsive - almost anywhere I clicked loaded nearly instantly. I created an account and the only thing I found missing was it doesn't implement full text search unless my user was tagged, but that might be a Mastodon specific item.
I think they have thought a lot about typical hard problems, such as having the timeline processing happen along side the pipeline, taking network / storage etc out of the picture. Nice work!
Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
#7ctrl+f "ads"
ctrl+f "monetization"
ctrl+f "moderation"
ctrl+f "existing infrastructure"
ctrl+f "personalization"
etc etc
Yeah about what I expect from a "we rebuilt twitter for cheap" post. There's no point to the comparisons with the Twitter codebase size/cost. It completely distracts from what is probably a perfectly fine project.
Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
#8They deserve congrats for that since they built the load test to prove this
Of course, for actual production use, there's probably a lot of things still, but this is a very nice works nonetheless
Re: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
#9I would argue that this is not "a Mastodon instance", since it is not running Mastodon - other than that, very very neat work! I'm excited for that "Source Code" link to be live :)
I think it's smart from a legal perspective, because the team members seem to partially be coming from companies acquired by Twitter.
So I guess, if you say "it's a Mastodon-clone", you cannot be accused of taking proprietary ideas from Twitter (this is just a guess, they know better).
But technically very interesting and refreshing to see. I really like their approach. It feels they are innovative.
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