Checked our server queues and the 28th saw us handle double the federated events as we did on the 27th. We are officially in another influx spike.
On track to double yet again today. It'll die down, it always does, but the Fediverse always comes out of these influxes a little more lively at baseline, and a little stronger (imo)
@darius has hometown done anything to improve performance compared to vanilla mastodon