Andres Jalinton

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Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, LATAM based.
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Mastodon Serverhttps://mastodon.hardcoredevs.com

Do you believe in decentralized social networks?

  

Please retoot!

#poll

Yes
90.9%
No
0%
No idea what are you talking about.
9.1%
Poll ended at .

Who do you follow?

#poll

No one.
6.7%
Only interesting people (or acquaintances)
53.3%
People that interact with me.
33.3%
Everyone.
6.7%
Poll ended at .

Question for instance operators:

Would you prefer if content delivery, especially for photos, videos, large data files, was done via P2P?

Yes
68.5%
No
31.5%
Poll ended at .
Since 71% of Twitter users worldwide are male, I was wondering how it's like in the Fediverse.
You can respond or not, but boost to know the answer!
#Poll
Female
26.3%
Male
55.3%
Other
18.4%
Poll ended at .
How many #Linux servers do you manage as a hobbie?
It counts as a server any VPS, Shared, Local, Raspberry, anything running a kernel.
0
16.3%
1-5
59.2%
6-30
24.5%
31+
0%
Poll ended at .
Tech CEOs coming from Twitter are like "There's no way a federated system can scale! Look at this thing, it runs on Rails!"

And there are so many loaded assumptions in that statement, between how this thing is supposed to work and what the capacities and limits of the underlying technologies are. Like, I seriously doubt your expertise on any of those subjects?

Anyway, it's not like every single instance has to replicate all content made by millions of accounts, or that the majority of traffic has to be concentrated in any one place. There will be challenges, but the nature of the beast is not the same as a corporate social network.
People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration
Google is insane good looking for datasheets... 

#Fediverse, valiantly handling the #TwitterMigration inflow.

(circa 2022, federated, not colorized)

It's likely impossible to delete data from many websites / webapps.

In a previous job we had the following
* Deleting a record set a deleted flag in the db to true
* Tertiary record of who changed what is recorded
* Application logs recorded requests which would include the data in question
* HIPAA audit trail service
* DB snapshots were taken daily / weekly, etc
* Separate data warehouse for BI reporting

It would have been a monumental task to actually delete someone's data.