A new release candidate for Mastodon 4.0 is now available for testing! We are planning to release the stable on Monday, along with some important security fixes. Stay tuned!
@Mastodon how is #scaleability handled on #mastodon? I'm concerned about traffic. Do the messages get aggregated before being sent to various sites? Or is it sitting individual messages to every user that is subscribed?
@anna and that's what I was thinking of as the bottleneck. If you're sending the same message to multiple people it seems like it would make sense to do it once instead of many times. Maybe I'm just showing my age most of my federation practice was on Usenet. And transfer rates were much lower then.
@anna I hear you, but the scale of things has just gotten a lot higher you know?