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   Josh Collinsworth (collinsworth@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 12:54:25 JST Josh Collinsworth

   I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

   We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

   There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 14:51:17 JST Aral Balkan

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     @collinsworth Quietly leaves this here:

     https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

     And this:

     https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

     And maybe this, to see where it’s at:

     https://ar.al/2024/03/26/draw-together/

     💕

     #SmallWeb #Kitten

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 14:52:40 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     @collinsworth Having worked in a big (multi-billion dollar, hundreds of millions of concurrent users) I concur so hard.

     Scale is a trap.

     I am, at this point, something of an expert of doing a lot with very very little, and this is the skillset I am the proudest of.

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     jaryl (jaryl@ruby.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 14:53:12 JST jaryl

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     • Andrew (Television Executive)

     @ajroach42 @collinsworth we call this "scale" yet this doesn't scale, Big Tech serves primarily shareholders at the expense of everyone else. When we have technology that actually scales it means putting power back in the hands of you and me, serving stakeholders interests, on their terms.