@blaine @ricmac Mastodon (and other federated platforms) do not need scaling. that should not turn into disgusting monster like twitter. there should me many small indfependent servers insterad of huge instances with thousands of users. that what decentralization is. and that what Fediverse should keep going. the way to globalization and centralization is a way to hell, paved with coproration interests. there go all that searches, etc. it is surveillance, it is targeting and data stealing, it is nothing good.

@iron_bug @blaine @ricmac But if we wanna onboard some billions of people more, does the federation also require some sort of scaling? Even if it would be many small instances. Pardon my ignorance, I don't know how the federation here works, do know XMPP and some other techs but new here.

@blaine @ricmac @antont nope. it ALREADY has the scaling in-built in its structure: it is decentralized. no centralization - no problems with "scaling".