@polotek from people who have self hosted, as soon as they have non negligible followerships, the traffic apparently intensifies a lot. Is there too much handshaking pinging around?
I feel like I've heard several times that the protocol is very "chatty" and I want to know what that means, is it inefficient, or simply required because of the federation?
I guess it's connected to what went around the other week, some people realised just sharing a link on masto could bring their websites down?