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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