> To demonstrate the scale of our instance, we’re also running 100M bot accounts which continuously post statuses (Mastodon’s analogue of a “tweet”), replies, b

> To demonstrate the scale of our instance, we’re also running 100M bot accounts which continuously post statuses (Mastodon’s analogue of a “tweet”), replies, boosts (“retweet”), and favorites. 3,500 statuses are posted per second, the average number of followers for each post is 403, and the largest account has over 22M followers. As a comparison, Twitter serves 7,000 tweets per second at 700 average fanout (according to the numbers I could find). Is Twitters 7k tweets per second the average? If so, what’s the peak rate, and have you tested your system under this load?