I believe what Reddthat did was setup a proxy tool someone developed. If I understand correctly, the idea behind it is that you’d deploy it to a server somewhere in Europe, the closer to the largest instances the better, that would receive all the activities one by one, then send them out in batches to the main servers, effectively fixing the problem until multiple activities can be sent at once. Perhaps lemmy.nz set that up, too?

Our admins showed a little bit of interest in it, but nothing ever came of it. Not sure if they’re on the matrix, but I suppose at least one of them would be