Mastodon Clone by Red Planet Labs

Summary:

Rebuilt the Mastodon backend from scratch and made it able to handle Twitter-scale (500M users, 20M writes/second, unbalanced social graph, etc.). Thus implementation is only 10k lines of code and is also significantly simpler than the existing Mastodon implementation. This clone is running at mastodon.redplanetlabs.com.

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I really hope they also license the code under the AGPL, otherwise the product would not be as good as mastodon in my opinion. See https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

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Looking at their Github, I mostly see Apache 2.0, which is a bad sign. But this whole thing seems like an advert for their product anyway, so it’s likely a nothingburger and won’t make a dent in the current Mastodon software’s dominance.

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It’s very chaotic. Loads around 20 new posts per second.

Who can follow this?

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The instance has 100M bots posting 3,500 times per second at 403 average fanout to demonstrate its scale.

Now I get It.

Copied from the devs’ blog.

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impressive.

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Impressive but I hope if an instance ever got to 500M users we would block it. That’s ultimately a terrible thing for fedi

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this sounds amazing, it looks like they even made it possible to search statuses or posts if I understand it correctly.

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That sounds really interesting

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