Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺The mastodon.online instance is under a lot of stress. Mastodon grows by 10k users/hour, accelerating, and each instance is basically a simple website backed by a MySQL instance.
Carlos Mendible@clemensv all servers are under heavy load... Will the #fediverse scale?
@cmendibl3 The individual instances are like partitions in a larger system, each probably capable of handling a few x10000 accounts. As long as there are enough of those and people find the ones with capacity left, the web sites themselves will scale to a larger audience. The ActivityPub protocol that exchanges info between the instances is going to become a huge burden because it's very chatty.