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188 points taddgiles | 5 comments | 19 Sep 25 20:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kylecazar ◴[19 Sep 25 21:29 UTC] No.45306862[source]▶
Cool -- I've suspected Elixir is used in many more companies than it's "famously" used in. A quick survey on Indeed somewhat confirms that.

Big fan, of both the language and community.

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1. garbthetill ◴[19 Sep 25 22:26 UTC] No.45307474[source]▶
yep, its always funny to come across a company that uses it. For me the latest one was tubi, ive heard truth social also uses it not 100% sure. Sometimes I wonder if they're quiet about elixir praise is because the technology just works with very little to no issues
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2. sarchertech ◴[19 Sep 25 22:50 UTC] No.45307687[source]▶
One of the devs at truth social is fairly infamous in the elixir community. I have several friends who worked with him at other places.
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3. typpilol ◴[20 Sep 25 03:38 UTC] No.45310103[source]▶
Infamous for what
4. arrowsmith ◴[20 Sep 25 06:15 UTC] No.45310903[source]▶
Who?
5. input_sh ◴[20 Sep 25 13:03 UTC] No.45313044[source]▶
Truth Social is just Mastodon on the backend and an alternative Twitter-like frontend called Soapbox. Soapbox is indeed Elixir-based and open source.

Soapbox has a very weird history of first being forked from Gab for a feminist platform called Spinster(.xyz), then it got acqui-hired by Truth Social, then many of them left Truth Social to be independent. Soapbox(.pub) today is mostly abandonware, the team switched focus to building products on top of Nostr.

The amount of times it switched sides in its 5 or so years of existence has been truly fascinating and difficult to keep track of.