Does anyone have a good breakdown of what Mastodon and Pleroma do differently on the backend and why Mastodon is heavier? And why they have a different web interface but use the same messaging protocol for federation? Are they like two different email clients, or more like using jabber to talk to your Google Talk and Yahoo messenger friends?
@ikea_femme another thing is that it's much easier to write an application that performs well if you know the requirements from the start. AFAIK mastodon was gargron's first implementation of activitypub but lain seems to have studied the blade quite a lot beforehand. And taken devlopment a *lot* slower than mastodon. There really isn't one thing that makes one faster than the other - it's just a combination of choosing the right language, the right architecture, and good code.
