@Richard_Littler it's not Mastodon, it's particular servers in the Fediverse that are overburdened. My account here is a little slow, but my "old" (since 2017) account @AriadneAnarchist is quite speedy. I think there is a pervasive issue with servers that have taken on too many new users recently and were not properly scalable. There isn't a #Mastodon per se, as there is (once was) a Twitter.