Just to note, Pleroma also uses a job queue: Oban. https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html

Oban is great. (I subscribe to Oban Pro.) It's also seemingly very superior to Sidekiq-like solutions for job management.

But you don't need that. It's certainly a nice-to-have.

> Well, that in short explains why Pleroma/Elixir is a much better stack to build this in

As someone who has extensive experience in both elixir and ruby, and mastodon itself, no this is doesn't.

I read that a Pleroma instance can handle at least 10-50x the traffic of a Mastodon instance running on the same hardware. Based on the reports from other sites that have switched from Ruby to Elixir, this claim rings true. Are you claiming otherwise? I mean, the lack of a GIL alone (thank you, functional language with immutable data!) should give a pretty massive performance improvement

I like Elixir but as of the latest Ruby version, you can use ractors. They aren't bound by the gil

Did not hear of them. Interesting. Also requires a code rewrite to take advantage of them, and still considered very experimental.