[lutoma]

> Every Mastodon instance is slow beyond reason and it’s still confusing to regular users in terms of how it works.

I'll concede the confusing part but all the major Mastodon servers I interact with regularly are pretty quick so I'm not sure where that part comes from.

[Lt_Riza_Hawkeye]

It is not so bad with Mastodon but much fedi software gets slower the longer it's been running. "Akkoma Rot" is the one that's typically most talked about but the universe of misskey forks experiences the same problems, and Mastodon can sometimes absolutely crunch to a halt on 4GB of ram even for a single user instance.