[zimpenfish]

> Pleroma also isn't RoR and is really designed to scale out better

Sure ... but that's not what I was talking about. It's still talking ActivityPub and that seems, to me, from my low use, few user instance, to be an extremely chatty protocol. I don't know if the ActivityPub traffic scales linearly with users but it would be a not inconsiderable number for 30k users.

[throwawaymaths]

Exactly. We're agreeing! That's why I'm not surprised that the mastodon server didn't do so well and that you might get more mileage out of your compute