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"Originally, Twitter was one, monolithic application built with Ruby on Rails. But now, it's divided into about two hundred self-contained services that talk to each other. Each runs atop the JVM, with most written in Scala and some in Java and Clojure"[1]

So is Twitter not a Twitter instance? Like if it looks, walks and toots like a Mastodon, is it not a Mastodon instance?

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/09/the-second-coming-of-java/




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