mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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I hope I never have to rely on my Mastodon instance in an emergency because given the state of my Sidekiq queue, I’d likely have been dead for several hours before anyone even hears my cry for help :)

(I say this with a smile but it’s actually really quite concerning that I can’t rely on it being real-time. Going to have to see what I can do about it. Can’t really afford to spend more than the ~€50/month I’m spending on my instance of one and my posts are routinely delayed by hours these days.)

Aral Balkan

What’s interesting is that I seem to see this behaviour whenever there is a rush of new people onto the fediverse.

So I’m wondering how much is a bottleneck on my instance’s side (clearly, there is one) and how much is a general slowdown of message delivery/handling across instances (perhaps especially the major ones).

@aral It might be interesting to look at *which* queues are backlogged, as Mastodon does put different kinds of work on different queues and apply varying priorities.