Load: a flood of fake servers; unique-key lookups no longer scan

tools/pasture/flood/flood.cs answers as twenty fake servers (flood1..20.test)
and sends signed Creates, Likes and Follows at a set rate; load.sh measures
the answers, the queue's wait and processing times, its drain and a persona's
home timeline meanwhile (docs/LOAD.md has the method and the runs).

What the runs found:
- Every unique index was partial on $type: "string", which MongoDB never uses
  for an equality lookup, so every post by ObjectURI, actor by ActorURI,
  deleted object, domain block, remote instance and the rest was a
  collection scan (280 ms a post lookup at 30 000 posts). They are partial on
  $gt: "" now, which an equality on a string implies; MongoDB.Entities
  rebuilds them in place at the next start.
- Two inbox workers capped intake near 110 activities a second:
  Federation:InboxConcurrency and DeliveryConcurrency (default 8) set them.
- The indexes the plan listed as missing: a post's boosts and replies, a
  persona's boosts, who follows an actor, timeline rows by author, a post's
  likes and pins.

At 300 activities a second (200 let through, the rest 429 by the per-origin
limit) the queue wait went from 29 s to 6 ms at p50; with the limits lifted
PrivaPub processes about 900 a second, each in under 10 ms, and the home
timeline stays under 20 ms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LsXgEaXee4GCU1hwYgPJXw
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@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ Written 2026-10-01 from the original 2023 code, the decePubClient UI, a federati
- groups run from the client (2026-10-05): `/clientapi/group/members` shows a group's members and requests to its owner
and moderators only, `reject` declines a request and `remove` takes a member out (a `Reject{Follow}` to a member
elsewhere); decePubClient's Groups page makes, joins, edits and runs them.
- load (S10, 2026-10-05): the `flood` peer and `load.sh` (`docs/LOAD.md`). The first runs found every lookup by a
unique key scanning its collection (the partial indexes were `$type: "string"`, which MongoDB never uses for an
equality) and two inbox workers capping intake at about 110 activities a second; fixed, with the missing indexes,
PrivaPub processes about 900 a second here, each in under 10 ms.
- wave 2, under way: PieFed, Mbin, NodeBB and Lemmy 0.19 in the pasture with scenarios (2026-10-05). What they showed and was fixed: the
instance actor answers at the server's root, where PieFed looks for the inbox it announces to; a community's removal
of a post on its own server is believed at once; a followed group's post its own server sends without announcing