On: Terence Tao on GPT-4

[endisneigh]

I'm not talking about the administrator of this instance, I'm talking about how mastodon is fundamentally designed. Even an iPhone could probably serve the (static) text of Tao's post to a million people on a 5G connection. Computers are fast.

[blowski → endisneigh]

I run Mastodon on a $5 VM. If I hit HN homepage, my site will probably be slow as well. I don’t see how that reflects on Mastodon though.

[endisneigh → blowski]

what am I saying is that there's a way to design a site on a $5 VM that serves static text that wouldn't be slow even if it was #1 on HN.

if you disagree with that then we'll have to agree to disagree.