Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork (UPDATED)
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    • cabbage
      4•5 months ago

      If I recall correctly it just doesn’t scale well, and starts performing poorly as the user count goes up.

      Personally I prefer Mastodon. In the end there’s only three dimensions: Security, performance, and personal preference.

      I’m happy with how Mastodon is being run. Move fast and break things kan kiss my ass. Move slowly and don’t suck.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 months ago

        Funny from someone on Piefed, which is developed quite fast considering when they started (it’s more a compliment to the Piefed team than anything else)

        • cabbage
          1•5 months ago

          Yeah, the irony is not lost on me!

          Early on in the life of software I think a faster pace of development makes sense, when the software is less complex and there are fewer affected users. I think most Piefed users accept that they are very much using software that is still in active development.

          Mastodon, on the other hand, is used by people who consider it to already be mature. A large number of people and organizations depend on it. Personally I trust it with the only actively maintained social media account I have in my real name. Moving too fast and making mistakes could have pretty fatal consequences there.

          There are features I would like to see implemented as well - I think proper quote posts will be nothing but a huge improvement - but I appreciate that the developers are taking their sweet time making sure to get it right. And if Piefed reaches a million active users I expect its developer(s) to do the same.