@gruber Another point is that we haven't yet had the stress test of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of users come to the fediverse yet. Even Tumblr, one of the smaller large networks, could absolutely flood the timelines of anybody who federates with it.

I don't necessarily consider that a failure, but for us, 11 million accounts is a big deal. It took a long time to get there organically, took a considerable amount of fan-out of available servers. In some aspects, I still don't think we're ready for the masses, because there's still a lot of important work to be done to better ensure user trust and safety.