Mastodon might not scale that well due to it being overly heavy but Activitypub scales just fine unless by scaling you mean something which makes it possible to

Mastodon might not scale that well due to it being overly heavy but Activitypub scales just fine unless by scaling you mean something which makes it possible to exert control over the whole constellation by some centralised authority. I'm running a host of Activitypub services - 3 Peertube instances, 1 Pixelfed instance, 1 Pleroma instance - on a single server without any problems, mostly for experimenting with the things but the Peertube instances are used regularly. Decentralisation is not, as this piece states, 'a Questionable Goal'. It is the essence of a thriving internet, it is what makes the difference between a world-wide inTRAnet and an inTERnet. It makes it possible to pick and choose your own services or host them yourself while still being able to interoperate - the 'inter' in internet - with others. It may not be a good fit for someone's business plan but to that I can but sing a song while playing the world's smallest violin: Nae kings! Nae quins! Nae lairds! Nae masters! We willna' be fooled again!