On: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitte...

[nathanmarz]

What do you mean? Every post I do shows up instantly.

Reloading the page from scratch can be slow due to Soapbox doing a lot of stuff asynchronously from scratch (Soapbox is the open-source Mastodon interface that we're using to serve the frontend). https://soapbox.pub/

[squeaky-clean → nathanmarz]

I think the concern is will this still be true if Mastodon reaches Twitter scale?

[nathanmarz → squeaky-clean]

Rama is scalable. So as your usage grows, you add resources to keep up. Scaling a Rama module is a trivial one-line command at the terminal.

Rama's built-in telemetry provides the information you need to know when it's time to scale.