Mastodon clone that able to handle Twitter-scale

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redplanetlabs.com

Mastodon Clone by Red Planet Labs

Summary:

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

Who can follow this?

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.