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   Jameson Lopp (lopp@lopp.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 16:48:37 JST Jameson Lopp

   Whose bright idea was it to write the canonical Mastodon client in Ruby?

   Are there ANY other, more performant implementations?

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     Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 16:48:32 JST Râu Cao ⚡

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     @lopp Another interesting project is the much newer Mitra, created by @silverpill, who also wrote FEPs for client-side activity signing and portable objects (bringing some of the benefits of Nostr to ActivityPub), among others:

     * https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra
     * https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main

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     Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 16:48:33 JST Râu Cao ⚡

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     @lopp See https://fediverse.info/explore/projects for example. If you're looking for higher performance, then Pleroma (Elixir/Erlang) might be a good fit: https://pleroma.social/

     Some of the client apps work with both Mastodon and Pleroma.

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     Jameson Lopp (lopp@lopp.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 16:48:35 JST Jameson Lopp

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     • Râu Cao ⚡

     @raucao
     Right, I was speaking in terms of protocol clients. I assume the lightweight apps are just REST clients.

     Where are these other server implementations? I'm having trouble finding them.

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     Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 16:48:36 JST Râu Cao ⚡

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     @lopp The Mastodon *server* is written in Ruby, but there are many other server implementations. There are also many Mastodon *clients* other than the built-in Web UI: https://joinmastodon.org/apps

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 21:10:17 JST silverpill

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     • Râu Cao ⚡

     @raucao @lopp and it's written in Rust. The memory usage is even lower than in Pleroma