I would be really curious to read an in-depth perf analysis from someone who knows what they're talking about (read: not me) explaining the root cause of the "Mastodon meltdown." E.g. is it:

1) A flaw in how Mastodon prioritizes Sidekiq queues?
2) As instance X gets slow, it slows down instance Y when instance Y tries to contact it? (I.e. is it systemic?)
3) Would exponential backoff help? More relay servers? Admins just learning how to tune Sidekiq properly? Rewriting Mastodon in Rust? 🙃