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   Bill St. Clair (billstclair@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 10:23:17 JST Bill St. Clair

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   • Alex Gleason
   • Dave Winer ☕️
   @davew @davew Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails. It doesn't scale, except through expansion of hardware capability. Pleroma is written in Elixir, which runs on the Erlang virtual machine/library. Erlang/OTP was designed to run the Swiss cell phone network. Properly used, it scales. HUGE. I can't speak for whether the Pleroma authors used it properly, nor for how well ActivityPub scales. I haven't investigated either.
   
   My personal Pleroma server runs fine on a $5/month Digital Ocean VM. I've read that an old 32-bit Raspberry Pi is sufficient to run a 100-user Pleroma instance.
   
   I plan to upgrade impeccable.social to use Soapbox/Rebased, a Pleroma fork. @alex is hard at work, adding new features.
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     𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 (ryan@rebased.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 10:23:17 JST 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘

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     • Alex Gleason
     • Dave Winer ☕️

     I think soapbox on top of the rebased fork is the future of Fedi once they get the memory kinks worked out. Until then stable channel of Pleroma is the best on low hardware. There are instances with good admins running tens of thousands of users as smooth as butter. I’m not sure what the experience of federation would be like with a million instances though.

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     Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 10:23:18 JST Dave Winer ☕️

     A good reason to keep a Twitter account.

     Mastodon's scaling is an unknown at this point. And it's growing very quickly.

     Had this thought just now when I couldn't get through to either of the instances I frequent.

     At least think of Twitter as a backup.