@helgek @darnell @nickapos @jan

If you make a post now that is real hilarious, or a really cute cat, then you might get a couple of followers, so maybe not in 5 minutes but maybe in 5 hours you'll have more followers (depending on the cat) which means your next post will have n times more ActivityPub inboxes for your instance to deliver posts to.

So sure, if we stipulate that the network doesn't change or grow, then twice as many posts leads to twice as many messages, but I am happy to say that one part of social media is new connections being formed, and so the big-O analysis is making this greater than linear.

Which again, I've heard a bunch of people say in practice they have seen their costs spike.