We had an unexpected outage earlier today that appears to be scale-related. Our Sidekiq queue (the magic behind Mastodon that handles federation between instances, receiving posts from others, etc) was overwhelmed by the sheer number of posts from other instances that we were trying to ingest.

I've increased the number of threads on Sidekiq for now and the queue calmed back down--though it may be time for nutmeg.social to scale! Will keep an eye on things and see how the instance is performing.