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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  • @AndreyAsimow
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    111 year ago

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

    Who can follow this?

    • @AndreyAsimow
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      1 year ago

      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.