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   Evelyn fra denne andre øya (evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 04:19:56 JST Evelyn fra denne andre øya

   A company did a "total rewrite" of mastodon, then deployed it with soapbox as the frontend, to demonstrate that their product supposedly allows you to build in "twitter scale" with "only" nine months of one person's time.
   
   i.e. they wrote new fedi software, which inextricably depends on something that they supposedly spent ten years writing, and are clueless enough that they're still calling it "mastodon". This should make you wonder what other corners they cut.
   
   https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/
   
   The instance itself is interesting, because it's inhabited by a spambots (100 million of them, according to them) constantly posting nonsense (3500 posts per second, again according to them), ostensibly to demonstrate that they've achieved "twitter scale"
   
   Instance is: mastodon.redplanetlabs.com

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 04:19:55 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @evelyn
     > Get bored at some point
     > Scroll to the end
     
     > You can keep track of developments with Rama by joining our newsletter or following us on Twitter at @redplanetlabs. We’ve also started the Google group rama-user, where you can discuss Rama or ask questions.
     
     Newsletter being list-manage.com… so I'd say they have no decent enough software to use themselves. :D
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 13:21:16 JST feld

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     It reads to me like "we are amazing at everything automatically" which is a huge red flag