Rebuilt the Mastodon backend from scratch and made it able to handle Twitter-scale (500M users, 20M writes/second, unbalanced social graph, etc.). Thus implementation is only 10k lines of code and is also significantly simpler than the existing Mastodon implementation. This clone is running at mastodon.redplanetlabs.com.

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[–] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's very chaotic. Loads around 20 new posts per second.

Who can follow this?

[–] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The instance has 100M bots posting 3,500 times per second at 403 average fanout to demonstrate its scale.

Now I get It.

Copied from the devs' blog.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

impressive.