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@SandiaMesa @foxhkron @alex @lain @cyber_ruffy@liberdon.com @PaterSnape @fluffy Their mistake: saying that to admins who literally do it for fun with spare hardware and cash

@tuxcrafting I used to ask myself this until I came to realize that if...

I literally forgot what I was going to say 😠 I thought it was good, too

@PaterSnape @alex @foxhkron @lain @cyber_ruffy@liberdon.com @fluffy oof

I love how all by himself, Gleason somehow got everything to work and even migrate to , and fix all the issues was experiencing and complaining about, and couldn't despite being an entire company with a team and financial backers.

@lain @fluffy @cyber_ruffy @foxhkron @realcaseyrollins I think they meant it's "expensive" in the sense that they kept breaking shit and people were expecting them to fix it, and "time is money." But working with them, I saw a lot of slacking off, lack of focus and poor planning.

They also moved to new servers recently, and faced challenges migrating Mastodon:

1. The database. Millions of RSA keypairs making it extremely slow to export, copy, and import.

2. Media uploads. Terabytes of remote image uploads containing content Gab users will likely never see.

What they don't understand is that Mastodon isn't ActivityPub, and you can have a server without storing remote media. The RSA keypair issue is legitimate, but maybe they should have planned for this instead of just reacting when something goes wrong. I was able to omit keypairs from my Migrator, making the export about 300x faster (not an exaggeration).

I strongly believe they ended federation because they felt someone deserved to be "punished" for this. They refuse to punish themselves, so removing federation is like a way to "punish" Mastodon for their site being down for 4 days.

need to help myself to a tree) and will destroy this website

@cyber_ruffy@liberdon.com @fluffy @lain @foxhkron I'm not aware of this, I just knew that they rewrote it a few weeks ago, didn't test it, and then they got plagued with these issues

It was awful at first, man, people couldn't even post pictures

riots happening in democratic strongholds, remember to vote im November all!

@fluffy @cyber_ruffy@liberdon.com @lain @foxhkron Yeah, the problem was Rob Colbert basically rewrote , deployed the new software without testing it, and realized the Federation code was super broken. So he decided not to fix it it, and get rid of the feature altogether.

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