“mastodon.social has over 2 million users … I think it's safe to say the the mastodon codebase is tuned for mastodon.social”
https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/
I keep getting asked why I’m working on the Small Web – which is tuned for instances of one (not two or two million).
This is why.
(It’s also why I was advising a certain someone to limit the size of his instance… until my advice was no longer compatible with their plans/welcome.)