The important bit

> But the recent Mastodon upgrade has caused a significant amount of performance degradation, and I think the only way to really solve it is going to be to throw a lot of money into hardware.

I found the latest upgrade also making some odd UX decisions. Content warnings got a weird new styling and it's not clear anymore how to hide images separately from hiding the text.

Are the mastodons okay?

There are good things too, don't get me wrong, like grouping notifications instead of getting a notification flood on a popular toot. That's nice. But what's up with perf regressions and (in my opinion) UX regressions?