no judgement, just facts
guess which project is built on this stack
answer below the fold
- Ruby on Rails
- mariadb
- nginx
- DigitalOcean VPS hosting
- DNSimple DNS hosting
- restic backups on b2
- Pushover notifications
- Hatchbox provisioning
Clues: 13+ years, ~2500 MAU and constant, controlled growth. No ads, no outside funding. Many novel social curation features[^1]. Transparent but gatekept (permissioned, curated).
first, an Aside
about the recent blowups at Bluesky, with CEO Jay Graber amplifying a known racist and transphobic account and users wanting to cancel her for troll-y responses including memes of WAFFLES[^2], my friend netopwibby wrote:
the Reveal
The project mentioned up top is Lobsters.
They're invite-only, with opinionated and explicit social norms.
They say upfront:
If you dislike the content or moderation policies here, you may prefer Y Combinator News, r/programming, Slashdot, Tilde News, or comp.*. Or you could use our codebase to start your own site.
It's the op...
