I assume that Mastodon is using ActiveJob to push tasks to the queue. According to the creator of Sidekiq, bypassing ActiveJob would lead to significantly lower

I assume that Mastodon is using ActiveJob to push tasks to the queue. According to the creator of Sidekiq, bypassing ActiveJob would lead to significantly lower resource usage: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Active+Job#performance https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Active+Job#performan... I never tried it though. Just remembered the Wiki note.