I'm sorry, it took *how* many servers to post a single long message from Ghost to 5k fediverse accounts and handle some replies?
https://activitypub.ghost.org/beta-plans/
(via @fediversereport)
(edited again TA: See replies from @thisismissem pointing to implementation choices + @bengo about pushing to Mastodon)
@kissane @fediversereport I always thought of this as the fundamental technical problem to solve for distributed social networks. And we're just... not solving it. People are talking about everything else besides this. And it's so weird to me.
@polotek @kissane @fediversereport Why does it take so many resources? Is it because there are many destinations for the message?
@sashin @polotek @kissane @fediversereport In a nutshell, whenever someone posts a reply to a message, it goes to the server which sourced that message; the server will then relay the reply to everybody engaged with that discussion: followers of the account, other contributors to the discussion, and anyone hashtagged in the conversation.