This might be a hot take, but we should have forked mastodon instead of pleroma. We would have had the ability to start with a saner database design, too.
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Oh fuck no, Mastodon is a disaster compared to Pleroma. Pleroma is just suffering from a few bad choices due to severe autism. It can definitely be saved, it's just that nobody will.
What is the likelihood that all of the changes Mastodon is suddenly putting in the pipeline will result in it becoming the most vulnerable activitypub sw?