**Shoq** @shoq@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2023, 22:43

**Shoq** @shoq@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2023, 22:43

Shoq @shoq@mastodon.social

Apr 25, 2023, 22:43

Shoq @shoq@mastodon.social

Hey #devs, what do you think of this discussion of scaling issues with Mastodon? Is this mostly a fair take, iyo?

https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/posts/2022/why-mastodon-instances-are-difficult-to-scale/

**c.gerrish** @cgerrish@sfba.social · Apr 26, 2023, 15:30

**c.gerrish** @cgerrish@sfba.social · Apr 26, 2023, 15:30

Apr 26, 2023, 15:30

c.gerrish @cgerrish@sfba.social

@shoq Here's a similar take: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/

**Mike Fraser** @mike@thecanadian.social · Apr 26, 2023, 16:17

**Mike Fraser** @mike@thecanadian.social · Apr 26, 2023, 16:17

Apr 26, 2023, 16:17

Mike Fraser @mike@thecanadian.social

@cgerrish @shoq Could you not have made the same arguments about SMTP? And yet here we are..

**Louis Ingenthron** @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org · 2023-04-26T16:53:37Z

Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@mike @cgerrish @shoq The biggest difference between ActivityPub and email, in my mind, is that the former encourages wide casting of content, whereas emails have far fewer recipients, by design. That contributes heavily to the network effect of content bloat.

Apr 26, 2023, 16:53 · · Tusky · · ·

**Mike Fraser** @mike@thecanadian.social · Apr 26, 2023, 17:01

**Mike Fraser** @mike@thecanadian.social · Apr 26, 2023, 17:01

Apr 26, 2023, 17:01

Mike Fraser @mike@thecanadian.social

@LouisIngenthron @cgerrish @shoq That's a not unsurmountable technical issue. I'm not trying to make an apples to apples comparison but more an analogy for what might be possible and how hurdles might be overcome.

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