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#UPDATE Wendy's is officially on fire. @FOX5Atlanta Alex Whittler: There goes @Wendys on University Ave.I had to step away for my own safety but here is a look at rioters right before they lit a firework in the Wendy's where #atlantapolice shot and killed #RayshardBrooks @FOX5Atlanta twitter.com/AlexWhittler/statu #Killed #Shot

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HAPPENING NOW: The Wendy’s where #RayshardBrooks was killed by Atlanta police has been set on fire. The restaurant is next door to a BP gas station & there is no sign of firefighters. twitter.com/Breaking911/status #News #Breaking #Atlanta #Killed

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@realcaseyrollins the purpose is to allow people to socialize imo.

One thing that's nice: is the default platform for people leaving or kicked off of .

We can accelerate the the exodus by demonstrating, convincingly, one of two things:

1. is awful
2. is just better than

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Don't get me wrong, this platform is great, just wondering what would define success

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A missing key to success for any social network is tons of advertising and I don't see any trying to get that

articles and some name drops in and won't cut it

Facebook fired an employee who criticized a coworker's Black Lives Matter response and protested the company's inaction on Trump's "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" post. bit.ly/3hkeCat twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/127 #Tech #Trump

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@alex I practically never see stuff I wasn't explicitly tagged in. Like a couple of times a week I get to use fedi like a normal person.
I can only imagine how long it takes @p to catch up on notifications. The dude hardly sees the timelines I'm guessing.
@dsfgs @djsumdog @realcaseyrollins @shebang I'm building a fork of Mastodon 2.8.4's frontend and AFAIK it doesn't have webassembley... Maybe for some worker process? It has websocket streaming though.

@djsumdog
Is it true that Pleroma can access exclusively Tor users?

Also does Pleroma use #WebAssembly or only #Javascript?

Thanks in advance.
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@alex @realcaseyrollins @shebang Interesting. It makes sense. I think back to how Twitter moved from Rails to Scala (and that was they days before Sidekiq workers or microservices).

There's a reason the Erlang VM is used for message passing in big telecos. The JVM can be pretty performant, but it does incur an expensive upfront memory cost.

@djsumdog @realcaseyrollins @shebang I didn't get to show you a full comparison when we last chatted, but for two similarly sized servers, the Puma processes _alone_ on Mastodon consume more RAM than an entire Pleroma server. The sidekiq processes double it.

@realcaseyrollins @shebang @alex The Mastodon frontend UI (in advanced view) is pretty nice (reminds me of TweetDeck), but it still has this terrible issue of, if you leave a scroll bar not at the top, your browser will consume 20GB of ram by tomorrow. (I should stop bitching and just write a patch to add a max to columns).

The back end does feel weighty, but the Redis/ES options do provide some speed up. It's all tradeoffs. Pleroma does have a lot of positive performance considerations.

@alex @l0wk3y @realcaseyrollins @shebang I've heard Mastodon referenced probably a dozen times by people who don't use it. They have a certain degree of name recognition that's more than what people here give them credit for.
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