>What the fuck. So basically it's a very large ad for people who are already famous? Again what the fuck.
I'm sure the Twitter limit debacle had them ship it before it was completely ready. They've already said that's actively in the works. It's not an intentional design decision, it's a feature that's not ready.
Sounds like they might have overplayed their hand. If it's seriously as bad as not even having a feed, surely people are going to get bored and dump it - that first impression is pretty important right? Signing up is one thing, the migration actively needs usage, though.
SSHing into a new linux VPS can be intimidating but there a few good digital ocean tutorials that'll take you from new VPS to dokku and once you're there it's very much a PaaS
Rust embed is also great, I cross compile everything into a single dynamically linked binary and scp to my vps, deployment is a breeze.