@doctorambient imho the interesting thing is that there is now an existence proof that software can be built speaking fediverse protocols that scales to Twitter size. That had been a conjecture — and a sometimes disputed one — before. For that, their specific implementation doesn’t really matter.
@J12t I agree with you that it constitutes an existence proof that it can be done. But If they really spent a decade building the back end tools, it may not be a practically useful proof.
Kind of like a proof by contradiction in mathematics, it tells you that hypothetically you can do something, but it may not tell you anything about actually doing it. Sadly.
I think Mastodon may have too much lock-in. I'm not sure there's another team out there that can rebuild it from scratch efficiently.