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Interesting #Mastodon criticism, mostly on account of scaling. Have to admit I still have no idea what to do next when our tiny instance that I run exceeds its current Masto.host plan. justingarrison.com/blog/2023-0…

Mastodon Is Doomed

Mastodon won't be the next Twitter, and it's not because of Bluesky. The ideals and execution won't scale.
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in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček

Martin Wenisch
Martin Wenisch
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This is a general problem of scaling and it's mostly about data transfer/storage.

Cloud has a poor unit cost at small scale. Small instance owners pay 100x the amount of large ones per transferred/stored GB.

But once the celebrities join, you can exit the cloud and cut the cost. 37signals cloud exit is an awesome scaling case study for this.

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