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@helgek @darnell @volkris @nickapos @jan that is purely technical.

For now we are stuck with Mastodon which is a Rails app, which comes with all sorts of performance characteristics. The larger alternatives (elixir+pg, php+pg) rather similar.

Performance and scaling are stuck there now. Regardless of the amount of people or amount of followers, the limits are imposed by the tech stack , today.

So that's where work is needed.

@surfingalot No.For one, because there is no oligopoly here. It's perfectly doable, even in the US, to order stuff online without going through amazon.

It may not be as convenient or as "lazy" (in the good way) but isn't hard either. As pointed out by Sneak himself in the long follow-up-thread.

It's nothing like "living in a country" because you cannot pick-and-choose. But with Amazon/Etsy/Shopify/Ebay/mom-pop-woocommerce/wallmart you can.

@sneak @doenietzomoeilijk to summarize: you do business with a company known for being hostile to its users, then complain they are being hostile to their users. But refuse to handicap yourself in name of activism. Instead let that company be hostile to you and handicap you.

And when someone points this out, you show that the company isn't hostile to its users but actually the very best company to do business with? Is that an apt summary of your problem?

@sneak @doenietzomoeilijk are there no other online businesses that sell soap? Has Amazon successfully created it's monopoly already?

In the Netherlands there are numerous small and large ecommerce and deliveries that sell and send to your front door and are not Amazon. Not sure if that is unique though.