Gregory's Server@jaz 4000 servers are serving ~1M active users. Twitter has ~200M users. Scaling Mastodon to Twitter without altering ratios requires 800k servers and say 2M mods. Possible? Sure. But what you're seeing right now in terms of influx is a trickle compared to required future scaling if fediverse services were to take over from corporate monoliths. it's quite a challenge, and likely to require some innovation along the way!
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@jaz Hi Jaz, thanks for having me on here. I saw the backroom comment earlier, are we as a horde going to be an issue? How do you expect funding to pan out, subscription or ads? Just ignore if busy. From Caerleon so a Welsh server seemed right in my dotage! 😂 Kind regards Ian  @Tanhouse1 Na, it's all good, it's why we're here, and we're very glad more people are interested in considering a different kind of social media network. Not everyone will stay, and that's okay too. In the meanwhile, we try to win you all over with simple kindness and a lack of ads 😃 Funding will be an issue for some, for sure. Some of the new ones that popped up this week will learn the hard way. But anything linked @ joinmastodon.org knows what they're doing, shouldn't be any major issues. |
@tjradcliffe Twitter didn't have 4M mods.
Most of us are up over 1,000% in three days, seems like it's going fine. Some servers more than others are having some trouble, but the network is up and people are enjoying it.
"Scaling Mastodon to Twitter" isn't the goal; scaling to meet the needs of people who want a friendly, personable, hate-free, ad-free, data mining-free social network option is. TBD how many people that really is.
As I said, we're on it.