@mike or, RIP sidekiq queues for any small actors hopeful, desperate or unknowing enough to try and ingest the inefficient noise of even the larger masto instances that can cost them out of existence much less Meta for the sake of numbers.

Federating with exponentially bigger even more power imbalanced groups that can afford to out resource literally everyone is a bit hard to celebrate as a content gain when considering impacts on cost of entry/sustaining and loss of communities at scale we've only scratched the surface of. This will have the potential to take away even more ability to endurecommunity/volunteer hosting and most certainly increase costs managed hosted solutions will need to pass down as well.

That effect will mean even if a server would want to try to maintain federation with massoc, who will certainly be first cab off the rank for hugs with Meta, that cost will come all the way down to the player that can least afford it.

Trading community for those who idolise follower counts is fairly a tough sell for many. Making a segment of the fediverse effectivly the same Faustian deal many struggle with already with the same corporate players walmart-ising a new town is indeed huge.

Good news is at least only the plebs here on the mostly AP fediverse will only be able to follow the royalty on the mega corp platform with a minimal AP bolt on. So don't start celbrating yourmassive follower gains just yet. #threads