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 Something that can happen is: - increase in fediverse usage I suspect this converges to stability over time though 6 comments | Expand all CWs
@objelisks I think we are going to have a bumpy period where Mastodon is going to need to seriously improve its overall performance. But I do think it will happen. it's correlated (significantly though not exclusively) with number of external follows for sure. I am imagining an economics of this where if someone on a small server has a million followers, maybe the admin has to be like "hey... pay more money for your fair share of the resources here or migrate elsewhere please" @objelisks my big fear is that if web hosting costs go up across the board significantly for whatever reason it will just be not viable to run a small server. Fortunately there are a lot of forces in place to prevent that (namely it would probably make billionaires less rich if that were to happen, lol)  > bigger servers are stuck retrying lots of messages @darius isn't there a back-off strategy ? I remember being frustrated that Mastodon doesn't respect when another fediverse service returns a "405 Method Not Allowed" to signal that it does not federate, but I was hoping that after a number of tries it stops. @mariusor yes there is a back off strategy but it still seems to clog up anyway for some reason |
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@darius is there a point where it is unviable to run a smaller server of any kind? is that just directly correlated to the number of external follows?