Some people love saying Mastodon/OStatus is very scalable because of federation but let's be honest that's some bullshit. It's easy to split and multiply, but that's not scaling.
The birdsite is much easier to scale.
@CobaltVelvet Also depends on what you mean by scaling. If you mean "building one big bucket of people with few barriers" then, sure. Maybe that's a terrible idea, though. The splitting & multiplying might be a better way to scale actual human communication
@CobaltVelvet (that could be b.s. wishful thinking too)