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> If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused.

Iirc, Elon Musk said social networking should not be centralized but distributed. Perhaps he bought Twitter just to shut it down so that ActivityPub would become more popular?

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You've only got to look at the inconvenience of setting up a matrix home server and soon think "centralised it is".

Mastodon is even worse.

I can't see it taking off.

As someone that recently set up a Matrix server, I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Which server?

Synapse needs dual core with 8GB ram. You don't call that inconvenient?

Even then you might have timeouts joining some rooms.

Most will not meet that spec and won't be able to join popular rooms.

God help you should you not replace the standard sqlite dB.

„recently“ being the key word here. For the first few weeks/months, my Matrix server worked great too, but it’s becoming increasingly brittle as time goes on.

Synapse is not the only implementation

It's the only full featured implementation.

The alternatives like dendrite are significantly more work.

And good luck getting any federation working at all unless if you replace sqlite.

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