Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by ekianjo on Sunday July 02, 2023 @04:42AM
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> Is there a reason for this, though?
Because performance was not a concern when it was designed - or it could be that it was designed for small communities, and therefore not possible to scale-up cheaply. One of the problem is the caching of pictures from the different instances connected (if I remember correctly) which makes the data storage requirements go up very fast
Is there a reason for this, though? Need to be able to iterate on features quickly? Maybe not being able to tackle various complexities with the total available resources? Or maybe federation is just inherently expensive?
Why couldn't we have an alternative written in a more performant language/runtime with maybe things like lower quality images/videos or something?