We tried to run a social media site and it was awful ( www.ft.com )

Sinnerman , 11 months ago

It's telling that most of their problems were regulatory/legal rather than technical. (they only have one bullet point about "a bunch of techy stuff".)

But the whole article has a very strong "how do you do, fellow kids?" vibe. I think the fediverse will manage to survive without the Financial Times' mastodon server.

0x1C3B00DA , 11 months ago

There's also the point about upgrades and storage growing exponentially, which is one of the most recurring complaints about running a fediverse server. Even the ones that are can lighter than mastodon have to contend with huge databases that never stop growing.