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 yeah you have a point... or they could keep scaling servers with users (i think they stopped and a point and now it is only completely reactive upgrades)