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Eugen Rochko

Good morning friends, this server is once again suffering under a heavy load of traffic and I am once again working on making it work better. Please be patient :tiredcat:

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Biason::Julio::new();

@Gargron Just wondering: Is that due new accounts or there is someone trying to throw a wrench in the whole federation by flooding the main instance?

Ryan Peters

@Gargron all this popularity sounds awful! 🀣

stux⚑

@Gargron Good morning! ❀️ You're doing a great job mate!

Mastodon is really blowing up wow..! πŸ™‡ Finally it feels like we're gonna shine a bit!

niklas

@Gargron muskodon.social is also there if you need a more distributed load. ;)

lukas

Thanks for your work and the workt of the other administrations of Fediverse services around the world, @Gargron !

Lee

@Gargron Morning? I thought you were in Berlin?

Cab T. Hanks

@Gargron
Maybe we can buy Twitter and make an Mastodon Server out of it πŸ€”πŸ€­
Someone very rich here?

beautyyuyanli

@Gargron Thank you for your work and wish things go to the better!

Pascal Leinert

@Gargron I guess we all should donate a buck on Patreon for more server capacity.

Antony Khoury πŸ‡±πŸ‡§

@Gargron Just joined. Nice to see y’all :blobhaj_heart:

Nincodedo

@Gargron your hard work is greatly appreciated!

Damage Control Blog

@Gargron You got this! :catjam: For our writers' personal accounts, we're encouraging them to join other instances. Seems like the main instance is strained with new users and also exploring smaller instances is a cool experience.

Jim Jones

@Gargron you are doing a great job. Thanks for all your efforts. It looks like Mastodon's patreon has increased since yesterday. Hopefully, it will get some more love and support today.

Https://patreon.com/Mastodon

#ThankMastodon

TheLadyJessica

@Gargron I appreciate all you're doing to maintain the site!

Manu Verneuil

@Gargron ich bin zuversichtlich und mir gefΓ€llst hier πŸ‘ feines Ding und πŸ‘ good job

Frankie βœ…

@Gargron No worries. I definitely understand the circumstances.

isternst

@gargron
Maybe you will gane some Billion in a few years.
How does it feel like?

7 Stars

@Gargron Thanks for creating a place for Twitter refugees!

Davor Pihac

@Gargron Would like to know what kind of problems you are facing?

The over-provisioning of server is usually a good idea, but honestly, don't have a clue about the infrastructure this instance is running on.

Tom Veneny

@Gargron Nice job at all. :)

I'm slowly leaving Twitter and so far Mastodon rocks πŸ‘

Sadly twitter is turning to something terrible. I noticed a lot of right wing americans became more hateful and racist. Maybe Musk gave them courage .

So I'm hoping mastodon and others instances will be new way of social network.

GR in RS

@Gargron you should know we're some grumpy demanding twitter refugees, but if you put up with us and our constant murmuring we'll never leave you. Keep up the good work and you'll be stuck with us πŸ˜‚

Jack Groundhog πŸ“·πŸ“ΈπŸͺΆ

@Gargron Thanks for working on it. I can’t seem to post pictures, though? Neither in the iOS client nor in Mobile Safari.

Clarakin

@Gargron This must be a very busy time! Be kind to yourself.

Seth Is Podcasting 🌻

@Gargron Better yet find another instance. You don't have to all crowd mastodon.social. Come on people

Alisca

@Gargron if only there was something we could all do to help. **thinking hard, frowny face*

Nils

@Gargron Thanks for letting us know, I'm trying to upload an image attachment unsuccessfully so far.

Miguel Morachimo

@Gargron Thanks for the hard work. Looking forward to see how the community keeps evolving.

Yaser βœ…

@Gargron good evening Eugen, today many friends of mine told me that confirmation emails hasn't been received for many hours

Toni

@Gargron this is going to escalate fast! πŸ’₯

Afif

@Gargron wth man, I just wanna post some cat pictures!

Eugen Rochko

It took 10 hours but the timelines finally caught up. @Claire and I identified a few performance issues that only become evident once there's a ton of activity.

cybik :deifirev:

@Gargron @Claire what were the more egregious ones? I'm curious.

zunda

@Gargron @Claire Huge πŸ• to all worked on this. Thank you!!

Simon Windmill

@Gargron @Claire β€œthe timelines finally caught up” sounds cataclysmic.

Eugen Rochko

I can't believe @janboehm actually signed up in the meantime. Hi! I like your music! Sorry the website was slow today. :cate:

Roh πŸ‘»

@Gargron @janboehm well, close the new registration for a moment. Don't make people thinks mastodon is very slow.

It also help the user more distributed.

peturbg

@Gargron
Hi guys here is true face of this son of bitch @Gargron
Look on photo. Meantime he BN ban people's who report insults. And how people's show proofs he van people's who report women violence. Women kicking men. Showing insults.
@janboehm

Deadly Headshot

@Gargron
There needs to be an instance specifically for musicians in general - on joinmastodon.org there are 2 music-related instances but one is for collectors and the other just metal-heads...
@janboehm

Roh πŸ‘»

@Gargron @janboehm

Please repost this, or you can also reply and write your instance address.

Newcomer, a lot of instances you can join on. The main server is currently slow because a lot of new user registration.

toot.io
mstdn.io
mastodon.world
mastodon.online
toot.site
uwu.social
social.chinwag.org
nicepeople.social
libertalia.world
mastodon.tedomum.net
meow.social

Eugen Rochko

This kind of success is as exciting as it is terrifying. Nobody prepares you for this. Every moment I am second guessing if I’m doing everything I can with the given situation.

cybik :deifirev:

@Gargron IMO that just means you're doing something right.

smellsofbikes

@Gargron you're doing great with the flood. Thank you!

Ckimoa

@Gargron faut parler en français monsieur c'est ça la révolution, pas La Pen

tblu

@Gargron Thank you and everyone else who's worked on this so very much though. It is a relief to so many people.

Matti JΓ€rvinen

@Gargron thanks to this project people have options. πŸ‘

The onboarding experience is quite rough on the appside when the toots are empty and you follow no-one.

Local & Federated views would help a lot in this regard.

#mastodev

(((o))) Acoustic Mirror

@Gargron Thank you for your work. You're doing a great job.

Tired but ambitious

@Gargron congrats on the massive influx of new users! Hoping to be a contributor in the near future.

Larry Anderson

@Gargron Thanks for everything you're doing, Eugen.

Malcolm Bastien

@Gargron We appreciate all the hard work and continued investment over these past few years!

arrobaroufakis

@Gargron thanks ! Will definitely donate once my paycheck hits at the end of the month ;)

Moonlightsiesta

@Gargron Really appreciate your dedication but do make sure you take care of yourself.

KnicksRIP

@Gargron To quote a critically acclaimed piece of cinema,

"You can doooo eeeet" ❀️

Lorenzo T. Flores

@Gargron You're doing great! Thanks for the effort.

cameronflynn

@Gargron Only so many priorities one can manage within a given timeframe and it seems you're doing awesome. Thank you!

Justin

@Gargron You’re doing great. You’ve got this. Thank you!

Blake Reilly | Ekyllier

@Gargron mate, just keep doing whatever you're doing. Mastodon is popping off rn

MissingANNo

@Gargron you do what you can and let the community help pick up the slack. This shows you and the community behind Mastodon have a good project for others to turn to.

Dred

@Gargron this is historic! We are all very excited about this and thankful for all the hard work to make this possible! :]

benedict :psyduck:

@Gargron I’m more than happy weathering the storm of growing pains if people like you are as hardworking as you seem to be! More people are rooting for you than not!

Gomphotherium

@gargron You are doing a great job! I imagine it to be a mix of huge happiness/exitement but with anxiousness. This must be hard and will ease in some time I think. You will look back proudly!
I appreciate your work and the work of the other admins!

Darrel J Delfin

@Gargron You're doing great! πŸ‘
Thank you for all your hard work!

PHANT0MSN4KE

@Gargron DONT forget to enjoy it even though there is stress.

OndΕ™ej PokornΓ½

@Gargron One thing I'd appreciate is updating the translations on joinmastodon.org ... People are translating it but it's not getting pushed to the live site.

Chloeg

@Gargron Thank you so much for all the work you’ve put in on this. When things move really quickly and you don’t know if you’re doing the right thing, be guided by your own principals. Sometimes your brain has to ask your heart β€œis this the right thing to do?” And be guided by what feels right. You’ll be good.

Prinz / Homescreen

@Gargron @janboehm May i get cool suggestions of accounts and tweets from new account

Steve

@Gargron @Claire Thanks for accommodating us newcomers!

Maybe I'm missing the bigger picture, but the need to select a specific community when signing up introduced friction to my onboarding... I get that the whole concept is federated accounts, but even understanding the principle I almost gave up after browsing through a few dozen options.

Dino :tux:

@Gargron @Claire Thank you so much for your outstanding work and time you put into this project. Make social media great again!

Leo Herzog

@Gargron Are you restricting new signups on mastodon.social? I'm getting 403 errors in the app when trying to create a new account.

nerk

@Gargron @Claire nice! I'm happy to be here :) now just gotta figure it out

smeg

@Gargron @Claire My instance's local timeline has been broken since mid-March and I don't know how to fix it :(

arialdo

@Gargron @Claire
Is there any blog where you share the technical details behind this project and its challenges? I'd love to follow.

TK

@Gargron thanks for the hard work.

As a relative noob to the platform I was wondering if it's advantageous for some folks(like myself) to migrate to smaller communities?

ShannonRJ

@Gargron sorry we’re slowing the server down. I have a feeling the #twitterexodus is just beginning. Hopefully we don’t crash the server!!🀞🀞🀞

Conor Mahood

@Gargron thank you for this place, and all your work! It's awesome.

Hanniel

@Gargron dipping my toes into mastodon with full intention to leave twitter before Musk let’s all the hyenas back in.

Astrid Sawatzky

@Gargron I hope once things for you are running smoothly again you find the time to write about this tech journey what you did and what you learned.

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