Extinction looms for FTAV’s Mastodon presence

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    1 year ago

    It’s telling that most of their problems were regulatory/legal rather than technical. (they only have one bullet point about “a bunch of techy stuff”.)

    But the whole article has a very strong “how do you do, fellow kids?” vibe. I think the fediverse will manage to survive without the Financial Times’ mastodon server.

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      There’s also the point about upgrades and storage growing exponentially, which is one of the most recurring complaints about running a fediverse server. Even the ones that are can lighter than mastodon have to contend with huge databases that never stop growing.