Martin Kleppmann on Nostr: Is it true that with Mastodon/ActivityPub, if you have N followers and you make a ...
Is it true that with Mastodon/ActivityPub, if you have N followers and you make a post, your home instance has to make N separate HTTP requests to individually notify your followers’ instances about the post? I wonder what thought has been given to scalability — if, say, Barack Obama were to join Mastodon.
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