DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab is a user on toot-lab.reclaim.technology. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
Some people love saying Mastodon/OStatus is very scalable because of federation but let's be honest that's some bullshit. It's easy to split and multiply, but that's not scaling.
The birdsite is much easier to scale.
Just imagine one edge case we're not seeing for now: many people using it (let's say millions) and following a very famous person
That person must have their own instance at this point, at least.
... what happens when they toot?
just imagine the enormous peaks and lag it'll do. And we're not even talking about media.
How would Mastodon realistically handle Katy Perry? I have no idea.
@CobaltVelvet now I want a bot that is set to toot exactly once six months from now and see if we can get it allthefollows before it toots its payload
