[bitfolk] Re: Multi-user Mastodon instance

Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 05:51:48PM +0100, Ed Neville via BitFolk Users wrote: If that is your environment I expect there are alternative implementations of a fediverse server that would be more suitable. The full text search is elasticsearch and the web app is ruby on rails, neither of which are known for being light on resources. <controversial opinion> The good news is that the vast majority of resources in the world are used by capitalism to market and sell things that no one needs, so I wouldn't personally worry about a few thousand elasticsearch instances indexing the text of a few million humans. All the largest IT corporations in the world are data mining and advertising operations, which is not the direction that Fediverse is going. </controversial opinion> I think the worst resource problem that Fediverse servers have at the moment is the way that they all stampede to download any link that is posted, because they don't share the metadata amongst themselves. I expect they will fix it eventually though. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting