Mastodon will scale if it has to. Mastodon and ActivityPub have been flying under the radar for years and now this is its close-up. The ActivityPub spec hasn’

Mastodon will scale if it has to. Mastodon and ActivityPub have been flying under the radar for years and now this is its close-up. The ActivityPub spec hasn’t been updated since it became a W3C standard 4 years ago; no doubt it needs to be updated and probably will be, now that so many users are now on ActivityPub servers. There are going to be growing pains but that’s to be expected. People remember the days of the Fail Whale, when during a big news event, Twitter would just stop working. Timing is important—there’s enough visceral dislike for Elon Musk and users getting tired of billionaires upending things. It’s not going to happen overnight but I expect good things to continue to happen for distributed social media.