@cwebber I'm interested to do more big-O comparisons as well.
for a large reply thread, say a thousand actively replying users on hundreds of separate instances, the number of AP messages that need to be rapidly distributed to assemble complete reply-thread view on each instance is pretty huge, no? N^2? and then also fan-out to followers?
each also needs to fetch/render media and social cards (O(instances)). and that doesn't cover *viewers* distinct from participants/followers.