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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I really wish running your own mastodon was as accepted as running your own email server. There'll be no "blue check mark" problem if your company runs the server and only provides accounts to employees.

[–] Alphane_Moon 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This seems like a win-win scenario for everyone involved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think the problem is that ActivityPub doesn't scale as well as email does thanks to the constant need to update and cache data from each instance one of your users interacts with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

So more how newsgroups fell, because ISPs didn't want to run the servers due to storage.

[–] gedaliyah 8 points 5 days ago

That's exactly right.