For what it's worth, when a server does go down and thousands of people start uploading their 50k skeets that all need to be cryptographically verified, other major servers will have quite the scaling challenge. Cryptographic verification is intentionally compute heavy after all.
50k entries isn't a whole lot but as people hosting Mastodon servers have found out, things start slowing down when 1000 people transfer those 50k entries at the same time.
50k entries isn't a whole lot but as people hosting Mastodon servers have found out, things start slowing down when 1000 people transfer those 50k entries at the same time.