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We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
(www.ft.com)
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It's telling that most of their problems were regulatory/legal rather than technical. (they only have one bullet point about "a bunch of techy stuff".)
But the whole article has a very strong "how do you do, fellow kids?" vibe. I think the fediverse will manage to survive without the Financial Times' mastodon server.
There's also the point about upgrades and storage growing exponentially, which is one of the most recurring complaints about running a fediverse server. Even the ones that are can lighter than mastodon have to contend with huge databases that never stop growing.