Grimmjow
Low Quality FactsJournalists: Mastodon seems great...BUT CAN IT SCALE?
*A few months go by. Mastodon gains millions of new accounts. Everything is still fine.*
Journalists: Mastodon seems great...BUT CAN IT SCALE?
Studio 8502 
@lowqualityfacts *A few more months go by. Twitter is less and less relevant to anyone whose opinion means more than a puddle of rat piss in the sewer*
Journalists: "MASTODON: THREAT OR MENACE?"
Seth Pajak@mos_8502 @lowqualityfacts I agree, I don't think Elmo is making the impact he had hoped for with Twitter. I guess it didn't occur to the stable genius crowd that ppl can go somewhere else.
Morten Juhl-Johansen@mos_8502 @lowqualityfacts But journalists talking to journalists, corporations and politicians are the only people who will stay no matter what and keep broadcasting statements no matter what.
So they will go on - 'twexodus? There were people who left?'
So they will go on - 'twexodus? There were people who left?'
Dr Power Nap, DDS ✅️@mos_8502 @lowqualityfacts
*Jack Dorsey awkwardly farts*
Journalists: BluuuuuuuueeeSkiiiiiieeee!
Tim_Eagon@lowqualityfacts It also betrays a certain ignorance of how Mastodon works. It's not a question of Mastodon scaling, it's a matter of your instance scaling!
Emerald 
CommodoreSpence@lowqualityfacts No it can't stay out and don't tell your friends!
*enjoys the peace*
Buster McNuttSee you need an alt account for this content.
ole@marq @lowqualityfacts this tbh
eestileib (she/hers)@cloudy @marq @lowqualityfacts
I kinda like the BBS feel where different instances have different feels and idiosyncrasies, and you get kind of a team feeling with the folks on your instance.
Odiseo@lowqualityfacts "But mah followers!" "But mah engagement!"
Zeiros Lion@lowqualityfacts Journalists (translated): "But can a handful of stupid rich capitalists profit off of it?"
ArtilectZed
𝙲:\𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚣𝚎𝚗> █@artilectzed @lowqualityfacts ahahaha oh my god
Raoul@lowqualityfacts Hey! That's not a low-quality fact. It's a really factual fact.
David Gerard@Tejuino @lowqualityfacts i was about to say, this fact's low quality is distressingly low
Urethramancer🐀@davidgerard @Tejuino @lowqualityfacts On average, it's still right about the level of me shitposting with a fever. No need to call for false advertising just yet.
PetterOfCats@lowqualityfacts I have to say that this fact seems high quality. Kind of disappointed.
Zuri Berry@lowqualityfacts unfortunately, this is spot on.
Carmela 🍉🔻@lowqualityfacts The Fediverse saved Texas Observer.
Journalists, probably: But can it scale?
Thomas H Jones II"Can it scale" is code for "will I have as high of a follower-count" and has nothing to do with the platforms' abilities to accommodate larger user bases.
Big George@lowqualityfacts can email scale ?
Timo Zimmermann@lowqualityfacts @swansinflight to be fair journalists were trained by startups to believe you need at least a few million funding to get a site off the ground to share cat memes. I can see why they are confused how any of this here is run and holds together.
Tom Ritchford@lowqualityfacts Me: "FEDERATED, mofo, do you not know what that means?"
FFS, that's stupid. You could set up and run a Mastodon instance on a $5 a month Linode server in less than an hour if your local instance got too crowded.
Stefan Scholl@lowqualityfacts In their defense: Journalists don't even remember the news they wrote a week ago.
Process Analyzer 🦅🌈@lowqualityfacts thats hasnt been answered yet. Ive been down for weeks at a time.
Lewis@lowqualityfacts Journalists are the same about vr. I guess their job is to 'ask questions' even when their question becomes irrelevant. Money for nothing.
Catbus@lowqualityfacts lmaoooooo
System IV, Building K@lowqualityfacts No shit, a platform that doesn’t offer them stanning and ads, and they won’t cover it?? Good thing I’m permanently on the fainting couch.
Jon Foreman@lowqualityfacts great post.
But can it scale?
But can it scale?
indyradio@lowqualityfacts send a few million more folks over and we'll see
aardvark@lowqualityfacts why can’t they just talk about its stock price and mezzanine round?
Then:
"This new blue-sky thing is going to use neural networks to solve moderation isn't it amazing and definitely going to wrok and make money!!"
ator robot@lowqualityfacts Keep asking this question and maybe we'll find out whether you can scale.
@lowqualityfacts Determination of who "you" refers to is left as an exercise for the reader.
geobeck@lowqualityfacts
"But can it become One Big Platform, prone to the inevitable controversy that we can leverage into millions of page views?"
"But can it become One Big Platform, prone to the inevitable controversy that we can leverage into millions of page views?"
Frances_Larina 🏳️⚧️They're saying they won't move over until it's more profitable for them. That's what they're saying.
Łukasz Michał zaraz wraca@lowqualityfacts This toot gets better every time I see it boosted in my feed.
Sinead Quealy@lowqualityfacts and think of the ructions when #johnmastodon is declared world's richest man 🙄
Severák@lowqualityfacts The primary difference between horizontal scaling and vertical scaling is that horizontal scaling involves adding more machines or nodes to a system, while vertical scaling involves adding more power (CPU, RAM, storage, etc.) to an existing machine.
Ryek Darkener@lowqualityfacts
Does anybody know how many of the "asking journalists" do have a mastodon account?
Does anybody know how many of the "asking journalists" do have a mastodon account?
Enrique Barcelli@lowqualityfacts my personal conclusion after about 8 months of not only being on Mastodon, but actually running a small instance is that the path to scale is probably the horizontal proliferation of many instances.
This applies not only to Mastodon but all the Fediverse applications as well.
Huge instances become painful to moderate and administer, so they require financial resources from the users or somewhere else. Several examples seem to survive, so seems to be possible.
Small instances are more homogeneous and easier to manage (say for your office or school) as they have somewhere to draw the resources from and they have solid and visible ties with the users, thus moderation is easier to enforce inside and outside the platform (ie. misconduct can warrant being spelled from school or fired from work).
Tiny instances (like mine) are relatively inexpensive to run, with zero moderation efforts as you probably know very well the handful of users in the instance.
JohnVoltz@lowqualityfacts I am disappointed in the high quality of this fact
Heathen 🐈
potatoxel
Shroomer@lowqualityfacts Journalists: “But can it scale?”
I dunno but can you scale some stairs and get your head out of your ass? Thanks.
brucy"But can I make money on it?"
Jimmothy Baggins@lowqualityfacts but can it scale its scales ?
radiish@lowqualityfacts high quality fact
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ESI think it has started already, but at some point it is going to be:
Journalists: Mastodon seems great... BUT D... Shit, you know what? I don't care if it scales. I'm tired of Muskrat's antic. Let's move!
Tertle950@lowqualityfacts Mastodon cannot scale (a staircase), as it is a computer program.
Protofox Riley@lowqualityfacts what they really mean is "but can it be a profitable platform", totally not understanding how the fediverse operates
Abhinav 🌏@lowqualityfacts meanwhile, every Mastodon admin writing blog posts: How to scale Mastodon for thirty thousand users.
Colin@lowqualityfacts @chirpbirb five months later and this is still relevant.
Ruth O’Day
Eric G.@lowqualityfacts Journalists: what do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?
Me: Nothing. You can't cross a vector with a scalar.
Migrated to tenforward.social@lowqualityfacts Hmm… better question: do you know what scaling is journalist?
Helge@lowqualityfacts but what is Mastodon's billionaire's business model I don't understand