Serious question:

Are I supposed to remove this white stiffener in my new ballcap or leave it in to help retain shape?

@TrismegistusMx weird. ive never seen a message like those on any instance using the web interface.

this server isnt up against any memory or cpu bottlenecks and i didnt manually change any config rate settings. it appears the software does have hard-coded limits, but this is indicated for the REST API:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/rate-limits/