@RokoMijic @yacineMTB also, what you would do if you were building greenfield isn't necessarily what's best given existing infrastructure & presumably certain time sensitive data feeds
@RokoMijic @yacineMTB also the politics of running a global social media app- you have data sovereignty & compliance crap that varies a lot, it's not just a single problem to solve but like, a tangled nightmare w existing relationships & status quo you might not wanna disrupt
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