Periodically I see the absolute monster that is the Akkoma timeline query
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@jenniferplusplus good luck with that (not in a dismissive way) but building a billion users software stack as one person is pure hubris. (I'll be glad to eat my words though)
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I think that network traffic should not equate 1-to-1 with the compute power to build a timeline for a user because the two tasks should be somewhat independent: ingestion of activities (the traffic that you mentioned) -> server, building timeline (based on normalized data) -> the client with which the user interacts with the server.
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@mariusor I hope and intend that this will not be a 1 woman operation forever. But I also don't expect that the social web would become a monoculture. I really just mean that some very large nodes must necessarily exist, and I plan for letterbook to support that.