> I personally find this absolutely hilarious. Is that blog hosted on a Raspberry Pi or something? "Over a thousand" requests per second shouldn't even show up

> I personally find this absolutely hilarious. Is that blog hosted on a Raspberry Pi or something? "Over a thousand" requests per second shouldn't even show up on the utilization graphs on a modern server. Mastodon is written on Ruby on Rails. That should really answer all your questions about the problem but if you're unfamiliar Ruby is slow compared to any compiled language, Rails is slow compared to near-every framework on the planet and it isn't written that well either.