Evan Prodromou on Nostr: One thing that people who don't write #ActivityPub software might not know is that ...

One thing that people who don't write #ActivityPub software might not know is that Mastodon has remarkably low rate limits for other servers to make requests -- getting data from or sending data to a Mastodon server. The rate limits are hard-coded in the Mastodon software, and they're for the whole server. mastodon.social has the same rate limits as your server on a Raspberry Pi. That means that the server that you need to access about 1/4 of the time is throttling everyone's access to it.