I wrote a rebuttal to this: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2022/11/14/a-rebuttal-to-scaling-mastodon-is-impossible/ https://weblog.masukomi.org/2022/11/14/a-rebutt

I wrote a rebuttal to this: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2022/11/14/a-rebuttal-to-scaling-mastodon-is-impossible/ https://weblog.masukomi.org/2022/11/14/a-rebuttal-to-scaling... The short short version is that it scales just fine if you use it the way its intended. The protocol provably scales just fine (contrary to his claim), the real problem with scaling is that it violates the core idea that Fediverse server apps (all of them) are written with the idea of serving a community, not hosting the next multi-millon user twitter competitor. There's more to it than that, and there are a lot of straw-man arguments and contradictory claims in that article.