It's really simple actually. Gab is a fork of Mastodon and most of the 'mastodon' reffs are removed from the code but the main app is the same.
Gab runs just like Mastodon on 3 different services:
1. - gabsocial-web (mastodon-web) -- this delivers the front app for users to login (web and stuff)
2. - gabsocial-sidekiq (mastodon-sidekiq) -- this process all the actions from users local and in the fediverse (post, follow, favourite etc)
3. - gabsocial-streaming (mastodon-streaming) -- this is the API part that takes care of the endpoint for applications for example
I think #Gab has troubles with the sidekiq part (2) if you have that much users to take care of it will generate a lot of actions(!!) so you need to spread this to multiple servers to decrees loads and get all actions done (within reasonable time ofcourse)
I hope this clears up things a little!
I’m from Mastodon ;) Yes it should be federating with gab.com also!
Try it out and let me know :-)
UK ISP association names #Mozilla "Internet villain" -- for circumventint Net censorship and surveillance mechanisms.
No, seriously.
"We have enormous freedom. That’s not a gift that was given to us, it’s a legacy that was left to us by centuries of struggle. By centuries of people that most of whose names are completely forgotten, the ones who created the freedom and the rights we now have, and that will be taken away unless you constantly defend them."
- Noam Chomsky
20 years in prison for licking an ice cream and putting it back on the shelf. #news