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Wow. Stats on federated events consumed by our server this week:

Nov 3-5: 280k events each day
Nov 6: 410k events
Nov 7: 764k events
Nov 8 (which is not even over yet): 1.7 million events

This is a sustained increase over the course of about a week. I have never seen anything like it. Usually what we see in an influx is a one or two day bump and then dropoff. I have never seen a week of solid rampup before. This feels very different.

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Anarcho_urbanist
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@liaizon some stats

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Dr. Dan Killam
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@darius singularity approaching

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trendless
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@darius excuse my n00bness; is there any similarity or comparison to 'jobs' that would be monitored/tabulated by sidekiq?

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Andy Gorman
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@darius wow! Thanks for sharing.

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Anarcho_urbanist
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@darius what does friend.camp run on btw?

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It_me_greg

@darius I came over from the bird site just a few days ago and I've spent maybe 15 minutes total back there since. Haven't been on it at all today. This is better.

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Alek
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@darius Hi Darius. I'm curious about overall sustainability / scaling of the Mastodon / Fediverse network. Do you know whether anyone is looking at this in aggregate? Is anyone calculating the server costs (increase)? I haven't seen any mention of economics of #Fediverse, but my server's admin is already mentioned sudden, additional costs of running the instance.

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Vicki Ziegler
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@darius What constitutes an event? Is it any interaction, such as a boost, favourite, bookmark, etc.? Does it also include posts, replies, server moves? Is a new account setup an event?

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Darius Kazemi
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Something that can happen is:

- increase in fediverse usage
- numbers go up
- small servers crash/grind
- numbers go up more slowly since small servers are down
- unresponsive servers leads to servers that *are* up sending duplicate copies of messages at least a few times until they back off
- numbers go up fast
- bigger servers are stuck retrying lots of messages
- the retries themselves make big servers slow
- etc

I suspect this converges to stability over time though

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:cornbread_going_goblin_mode: Elfie :elfie:
@darius @darius
That's cool but I'm more interested in why you look like vsauce :laughing_cirno:
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Matt Schneider
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@darius just saw this and I’m super curious what they’re looking like now?

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