Even better would be a deployable binary service. Calling out all Go and Rust developers!
In a year or two I might migrate. Pleroma works quite well though...
I don't get it. It feels as if fundamentally you've built a prototype.
We're talking about messages and images, this sort of thing should be able to run on a 500mhz Celeron as long as the bandwidth is there.
Our industry is a fucking joke.
It's honestly bizarre to me. I prototype in Python, and sure I might be lazy and use it for services that I know don't have to scale at all.
But as soon as I point something towards the public internet it's just gotta be better than that.
I suspect that a lot of folks are in the same boat. Mastodon will be getting a workout. The bugs will show up en masse, but they will also be fixed, and the service will improve greatly, as a result, with a lot of “lessons learned” lore, added to the canon.
I noticed that CNN ran a front-page story on Mastodon, so it’s now mainstream.
Welcome to the big leagues, li’l buddy…
I'm the original author of a [much more humble] independent, federated system, and understand this.
It basically takes patience. Having an "upgrade carrot," to encourage folks to go through the upgrade (and making the upgrade seamless) is helpful.
Is the hope that just folks of a given political viewpoint will move to Mastodon and moderation will not be necessary?
That is, a user deliberately joined a server with a moderation policy they liked. They see a lot of content that is supposed to be moderared out. They ask what's going on, and are told that content is being posted on other servers with admins with different policy views. This user is told they can either ban that specific user or ban the whole server. Neither is a good answer.
I don't know (and don't care enough to research) if this is a flaw in the protocol or a specific implementation.
Or will the idea be more like "lefties should go to $SERVER1, righties to $SERVER2" and then the two servers don't federate with each other because they find each other's content distasteful?
