@Gargron Keep at it, Musk!

@Gargron that is quite the uptick!

@Gargron can I access those stats? 😊

@Gargron
Thats fantastic I am one of them from the UK would love a Follow if not to much trouble, am so pleased to be here 😀 😊

@Gargron

Well, Twitter is slowly dying, and this seems like the highest potential alternative...

@Gargron Any stats on who is joining - eg country, language, BIPOC, age, or interest groups (science, hci, oer, etc)?

@Gargron It’s a testament to your engineering that the #Mastodon network is coping with all the new users.

@Gargron that's a good remider to pull up :mastodon: specific monitoring. 😁

@Gargron 1,000,001 (I just joined)

@Gargron any way we could publicly see the stats?

@Gargron Yup! Really hope we can see a rise in fediverse usage. 😎

@Gargron congratulations! I know you've been working your tail off, but you've help free literally millions of folks. I hope it makes you proud and performs better than you ever hoped.

@Gargron Amazed looking at the speed of this mass migration.

@Gargron

How can I change the servers?

@Gargron Going to be interesting if people stick around in a couple of months time or if its just a fad

@Gargron How exciting! What kind of challenges does this level of growth bring to the platform?

@Gargron Wow. Thank you for all the things you do to accommodate us refugees from the bird. I keep seeing people making donations, helping to keep this going but I’ve not found how & where to do that.

@Gargron We are trying to learn the ropes 🙂

Can we know a long term road map and the plans for #Mastodon?

@Gargron interestingly there are also record numbers in activity on Twitter.

@Gargron Demographics of these one million new people?

@Gargron that’s so many!

@Gargron https://mastodon.social/@celiz/109330711926208279

@Gargron Keep it going! Btw how is this challenge managed from HW point of view? Any literature on that?

@Gargron well done Eugen and the sysadmins across all the instances.

@Gargron Brilliant!

@Gargron +1

@Gargron and if they each have 10 of their local currency…

@Gargron Dankeschön for all your work. Hope Servers are fine for increased load?! Probably more to come. Wondering if more international users are joining #mastodon those days and not only Germans 😉?

@Gargron Not bad for 2 weeks-ish 🚀

@Gargron there is something really needs to be here for better experience... I hope its gonna better day after day. ✍️

@Gargron And no one knows how to use it.

@Gargron Wow 😮
You guys have coped really well with the influx, thank you 🙏

@Gargron WOOP WOOP! This is where the cool kids came to escape the fascists. Let's build it the way we want it.

@Gargron I’d like to second a request I saw for a product roadmap. Which components of the product should (open source) technical contributors focus on to help ensure proper scalability and usability?

@Gargron is there a link for these stats?

@Gargron

@Gargron It seems to be the lifeboat of choice for twitter refugees

@Gargron Sending so much #love to all of them.

@Gargron nice to see and hear your achievement. Yes 😊👍🙋🙏 Regards

@Gargron Great, but how will the hosting costs be covered? Presumably there are data flow and storage costs?

@Gargron
Do people here before November 2022 get a star?
Asking for OC (Oliver Cat)...

@Gargron why complain???

@Gargron sanity and knowledge are inspiring! Thanks for providing us a community with both!

@Gargron not bad for a week's work!

@Gargron WOW!!!😱

@Gargron

@Gargron I wonder why?!?

@Gargron WHich is amazing, and an incredible acknowledgement of the ork you and so many others have done to make the platform stable enough.

#Thankyou - I know some of us are struggling to change the mindset, but we will get there.

@Gargron Is there a way we can look at the stats ourselves? Apologies if this is something that's a quick search away...

@Gargron just try it rn

@Gargron Ooof!

@Gargron nice

@Gargron thank you for your work Sir. Your contribution to society is invaluable. So grateful.

@Gargron :blobcheer: that is utterly incredible! Congrats and well done to everyone involved 🎉 you’ve succeeded in creating something truly special!

@Gargron just download the app. Migrating from Twitter. Still figuring this place out.

@Gargron That’s great to know.

@Gargron how many are there?

@Gargron But about 750,000 of us have still not worked out how it works 🥺

@Gargron

@Gargron have you counted the number of new instances? My rough approximation from looking at a couple of start sites is around 1200-1500. That's the beauty of Mastodon/Fediverse scaling to me... It's not just one big monolith, there is horizontal scaling and more people / orgs investing in the whole network.

@Gargron Amazing what two weeks of crashing bird site into the ground will do for alternatives.

@Gargron That’s awesome.

@Gargron that's some awesome growth! I've also just joined and really liking it so far!

@Gargron Not surprised while Twitter is burning down unless a massive change happens or miracle.

@Gargron everyday the bird seems more insane. At some point mastodon will reach critical mass and the rest will flock away turning Twitter into myspace.

@Gargron Bravo! 👏

@Gargron Can we look at it too? edit: on mastodon servers page, right?

@Gargron Good! We need the people :)

@Gargron all credits goes to Elon musk ✍🏼

@Gargron congratulations!

@Gargron Congratulations! Lets hope, that this growth is sustainable so that we can have a great decentral alterantive to Twitter.

@Gargron how about new servers?
That's interesting also I think because it talks about the health and actual growth of the fediverse

@Gargron to be honest, I wasn't eager to join. Still, it seems like most of the infosec Twitter is moving here and so I had to join in order to remain in the loop. I think this is definitely a great achievement for a social network: it means that an avalanche effect is starting! 🚀

@Gargron

A million users isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion users.

:ablobwink:

@Gargron It is amazing how well it’s working despite the influx of all of us. Hats off to everyone behind the scenes for an amazing job and making us feel welcome. I know I’m happy here.

@Gargron Thanks to Elon Musk. If Twitter goes bankrupt, you'll have more.

@Gargron
I am one. Have been here for 1.2 minutes.

@Gargron huzzah!

@Gargron class

@Gargron Is that 1M for just your server or the entire fediverse?

@Gargron thanks for your work!!!

@Gargron loving that!!

@Gargron I brought some people with me 😉

@Gargron And half of those million people joined #Mastodon in the last five days alone. That's one new user every second!

@Gargron 🔥🔥🔥

@Gargron I have been trying to sign in to adjust settings but I think I tried so many times I lmay have locked myself out. Is there a help center? Sorry for being so clueless.

@Gargron congratulations!

@Gargron wow

@Gargron that’s amazing

@Gargron Congrats dude!! #Elon has helped immensely!! 🤣🤣❗️❗️👌

@Gargron The more EM melts down, the more folks are going to head for the exits. If things do collapse (as it seems more likely every day), it's game on as people look for alternatives. Brace for impact.

@Gargron Great! Twitter Refugee, hoping that this will work out.

@Gargron Most of whom are scared of what Elon's next moves might be....

@Gargron I am following more and more from my twitter list. It's great to see more activity here

@Gargron I don’t think I count as “using” it. Basically, I’m standing here looking lost.

@Gargron Could the massive migration from Twitter be the cause for secure connection failures? I experienced one yesterday and the day before. They typically lasted all day.

@Gargron Wow..!