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hey you know what would be a very interesting way to scale large instances
literally make a second mastodon.social
and redirect all new users there, the two hosted independently and maybe even managed differently or organized in regions
and potentially some addition that help the two share the local timeline efficiently
i mean that's how the network is *designed* to scale
@CobaltVelvet You know, that has me thinking about IRC and how I could point to a central server but dependent on certain factors - CPU load, lag, ping times - my connection would be filtered through one server versus another...
I have no idea if that would even be possible with something like Mastodon?
@electrotamitha we already kind of do that, except there is much more to keep shared between the servers so we usually keep them clustered.
but i was thinking about irc too while writing that, and we could inspire a solution from it