@objelisks I think we are going to have a bumpy period where Mastodon is going to need to seriously improve its overall performance. But I do think it will happen.

it's correlated (significantly though not exclusively) with number of external follows for sure. I am imagining an economics of this where if someone on a small server has a million followers, maybe the admin has to be like "hey... pay more money for your fair share of the resources here or migrate elsewhere please"