If the federation is done by a helper app then it may be possible to throttle it. At least it wouldn’t choke out the machine and slow down other running processes.
I would start by setting up some sort of a monitoring system that tracks your memory usage, disk I/O, CPU etc. There are many packages out there for that. I don’t know what lemmy is written in but chances are there are also application monitoring you can wire in too like Sentry sentry.io/welcome/
Of course I don’t know how your app is being hosted by fediservices. I don’t know if you have shell access or can install any apps or whatever.
Given the lack of rigorous testing and monitoring I suspect actual reported number of cases should be doubled or tripled. The hospitalisation and deaths are more reliable and that’s what we should be monitoring.
AFIK the US has very long mortgage terms. It’s routine to get a 30 year mortgage with locked in terms. Of course people can and do refinance but if they have good terms they can keep them until the house is paid off.
Our mortgages are only a couple of years or so.
That’s a huge difference INMHO and can’t really be compared.
I didn’t get a chance to visit that brewery. In fact the only brewery I visited in Australia was the little creatures in Fremantle which was in a large building like a warehouse. Good beer, good food but not a place you go for some peace and quiet that’s for sure.