@lain @emacsen @cjd @schmittlauch I think one thing that happened at APConf is that a lot of us started to get excited about the viability of bringing Datashards to the fediverse. It seems to me that the Pleroma team is looking to take leadership here, and that's really great and increases my confidence.
We didn't have Mastodon devs at the table when these conversations occurred; eventually we want to start looping in @gargron and @nightpool and others about what we're thinking.