diff --git a/changelog.d/federator_outgoing_increase.change b/changelog.d/federator_outgoing_increase.change
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e68a79bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/federator_outgoing_increase.change
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Increase outgoing federation parallelism
diff --git a/config/config.exs b/config/config.exs
index 4780892f7..226d73df4 100644
--- a/config/config.exs
+++ b/config/config.exs
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@
   queues: [
     activity_expiration: 10,
     federator_incoming: 5,
-    federator_outgoing: 5,
+    federator_outgoing: 25,
     web_push: 50,
     background: 20,
     search_indexing: [limit: 10, paused: true],