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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by speedgoose on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:22PM (#33497341)
The current architecture is not designed to be horizontally scalable. You need one big primary database node. That works well if you are willing to optimise a lot, see the one example: stackoverflow. But it requires a lot of efforts and cannot scale that much.

One could probably create a new implementation that scale though.

Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by losteric on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:12PM (#33498590)
I'm very new to the project. Do you happened to know if the software architecture is inherently coupled to that physical tech choice (one big postgresql)? I have seen some well architected RoR apps sidestep that limitation, but they seem to be the exception.