@lookitmychicken tbf, i don't think his answer says that they'll be supporting ActivityPub, just that they'll be doing more interoperability work. maybe they'll try to make some APIs that will make it possible for someone else to write an ActivityPub bridge, but i don't think they'll be doing that work themselves.
@bloodwrites as the maintainer of this instance, any suggestions/ideas why it might be timing out? All I have is that I am not using nginx (caddy instead), docker, and reverse proxying, which might be more performance overhead.