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Just look at it failing the HN hug of death. If this one can't survive techies on a orange site rushing to the site then it cannot possibly survive a lotus of users from Twitter or TikTok rushing into any post on Mastodon, bringing it flat on to the floor.

I can only see Mastodon centralizing to cope with the load. But a server going down on this load from HN tells us it is no where near ready to handle an insurmountable amount of users or even begin to challenge Twitter which hosts 220M+ users every single day.

>>rvz+(OP)
Mastodon user count has mostly been a steady growth. So far it hasn't really failed at a high level. We aren't in Bitcoin territory, the network isn't really slower than it was a year ago even if number of user is much higher. It's mostly distributed among many instances.

>>rvz+(OP)
Twitter is pretty sluggish, to be fair. 7 seconds to load and render a single tweet on mobile.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-twitter-com-realDon...

Mastodon.social is actually much faster on this particular benchmark. So maybe there is hope.