@Roboron @mike forest and trees G. transience is still a problem. apologies for not being a gifted wordsmith but how does this shake out, small (masto) instance trying to stay federated with bigger (masto) instance that are already bogging things down due to big followed accounts on a big server will continue to get worse when say the big server (massoc) is now federated and getting more pummeled itself with push noise from a boatload of takeis and brands on threads. It doesnt matter if the small instance is only following a couple bigs on the middle one, all the transient bloat and lag pains will shovel downward to most affect the lowest resource party