Ask HN: What would happen if Trump used Mastodon instead of Twitter?

[trestenhortz]

Would it be the boost that open Twitter-like platforms need?

Can Mastodon handle the scale needed?

Would open Mastodon client pop up?

Could anyone control what is said?

[gostsamo]

The deplatform calls might be targeted at the hosting company, many instances will block his one, and the Mastodon ecosystem will split because many LGBT people use it and they don't like him. It is more likely that he will move to Gap, Parler, or something like that which markets itself as preserving free speech.

I don't know about the load capacity of the activity pub protocol, but Mastodon is built on elixir and it might help somewhat.

[sirodoht]

Mastodon seems to be built on Ruby, rather than Elixir [0].

[0] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

[stephenr]

preserving consequence free speech.