Gregory's ServerPeople grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration
 @Richard_Littler and there's a shortage of eggs. Everyone wants omelettes. Poor old Babs. @Nora @Richard_Littler Haha! Remember that Quote tweet feature before the interface revamped 😅  @Richard_Littler good point, and pls remember to buy some scones & a cup of coffee to your admins at your new instance (you might find sponsor links at "about this instance" @Richard_Littler Not to mention, or actually to really drive the point home, that nobody actually joins "mastodon" and "mastodon" is not slow. You join a server and that one is slow. Join another smaller server maybe?  @Richard_Littler Babs needs to sort her shit out, and as for that Maureen... To my new followers: You will experience delays as both a new signup (email delays) & an existing user (slow service; inability to load images, etc). It will settle down. Patience will be required. Remember, Mastodon is run by volunteers. It's not corporate & is still in the process of upscaling. Mastodon is different. It's polite and friendly. There's a different code of conduct (please look up some of the basics), a slower pace. It's not a sprawling, hectic shopping centre in a grim industrial park on the city rim; it's a pleasant village street with artisanal shops and cafes. Take your time. Be nice. @Richard_Littler  @djphng @Richard_Littler let's hope it stays that way for a while...before the brands and social media marketers come over 🥹 @JeanPhilippe @Richard_Littler Yes! Just that the IRC chats all happen simultaneously at once. @Richard_Littler my experience so far: it's more social, like an actual social media. Very interesting experience, even if confusing. @Richard_Littler Good and helpful words, thank you. Though I am struggling with it, can find no-one I know in the crowds outside the village, and the artisanal cafes sound great but could someone please set up a burger stall on the edge of town until we get a chance to experience these lovely places. @VincentWrites @Richard_Littler If you use fedifinder or debirdify, you can import your followers/followees/lists from the Bad Place - those tools automatically find the same accounts throughout the fediverse; you can then import to Mastodon, and the accounts will be followed automatically @RedStar @Richard_Littler Wonderful info, thanks. Alas too late for me, I de-activated my Twit the day Musk took over, not thinking to let followers know of my Masta account. There is nothing there now for such software to recover. Lost in space.... @Richard_Littler "it's a pleasant village street with artisanal shops and cafes. Take your time. Be nice." - fantastic simile. @Richard_Littler I don't know, there are shitty people everywhere, only difference for now is that they don't get much traction due to the lack of algorithms boosting inflammatory content  @Vittoria @Richard_Littler ...and due to the village cop actually being seen in the street @Richard_Littler I really ❤️ this description, mainly because that sounds like a place I want to be, but also because it reminds me of my first visits to dial-up BBS in the late 1980s. That sense of taking care of each other seems to have been lost in recent years @Richard_Littler I'm finding it so much less stressful than Twitter, and so much easier to keep track of things too! It's just...nice and I hope it stays this way. Babs and Maureen have been doing a lovely job.  @Richard_Littler Mastodon actually does remind me a bit of the village I live in, except there are a few less mobility scooters on the back roads. @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social it would also do well to remind ppl that there are so many other Mastodon servers as well as alternate platforms (I'm on a self hosted instance of the misskey fork Calckey for example). The Internet Archive just set up an instance as well as Vivaldi, known for their browser and even MIT. The problems you describe are bc so many folks are going to mastodon.social, a single instance in an ocean of them. @Richard_Littler as one of the 1 million, *brings* 🍵 and 🍰 then goes to sit in a corner with a book. @Richard_Littler g'morning Richard, I love the description of Mastdon... give me the simple quiet respectful life any day! @Richard_Littler one thing I'm noticing, which brings me immense joy somehow, is all the different platform handles in the replies! @Richard_Littler all I want is to find a few accounts that post news and updates for tv, culture, etc, for the UK. I think then I'll be happy to scroll on here over Twitter. @Richard_Littler Yours are the first posts in my feed and what a lovely warm hug of a post this one this is. Happy to have finally worked out how to be here. @Richard_Littler this is why I get the feeling it's not going to fully take off on a mainstream level. Not enough drama/toxicity and people's short attention spans may not have the patience to absorb the way it works  @Richard_Littler And again: mastodon isn't slow: mastodon.social is slow. Find a less loaded server, if you can! @spacehobo @Richard_Littler tbf, it's not just mastodon.social at the moment. And mastodon.social struggling with scaling problems has surprising effects (because it effectively creates a netsplit; you can load a post on a different host, and be "missing" mastodon.social replies that show up later, even on your own server. It's a confusing experience that makes "Mastodon" overall feel slow.  @Richard_Littler and Babs and Maureen are footing the bill for most customers. The cheek of it! @Richard_Littler Babs & Maureen deserve a break with some muffins and tea. You're doing great, you guys!  @Richard_Littler Ha! This is perhaps the most fun explanation of what is happening right now with #TwitterMigration 🤣 Thanks for helping me start my day with a laugh!  @Richard_Littler unlike any other platform, you can simply fix this by running your own instance. @Richard_Littler I've just joined and the way you describe #Mastodon, I'm fairly confident I got to the right place. No grumbling from me at all! Kind regards to Babs & Maureen @Richard_Littler we are all a little traumatised.. 😱 give us a couple of weeks and we will settle into our new world and reconnect with our old tribe. I like what I’m seeing and looking forward to being more chilled and confident here. @Richard_Littler when you spend 15 mins to create an account and after 2 hrs cannot log in, trust me is frustrating. But at the end of the day, yes you are right!  @Richard_Littler this is exactly like when The Original Beef of Chicago got praise in a review for its risotto dish, and carmy got swamped with takeout orders   @Richard_Littler I have to report the interest in finding out how clever the app is, is giving my grey cells a well needed jolt 😂 @Richard_Littler It helps when people uses a decentralised system in a decentralised manner. Not everybody needs to sign-up on the same server Its a natural reaction. In fact most of us want to pay for as long as it remains democratic. It is desires like this that make tech improve. how else will it improve so it can carry 1 million new  @Richard_Littler @Richard_Littler @Richard_Littler I guess it depends mainly on which intance you are on. I have not problem at a smaller instance. @Richard_Littler Well, it is better to have your mastodon account sooner, since we do never know when will twitter finally close the server. No? Who knows 😅😅  @Richard_Littler If the tearoom is full, maybe go to the newsagent instead.* * Translation: Find a smaller server, don't all pile on to dot social! @Richard_Littler Babs and Muareen do make a good oat milk latte though, no wonder people are impatient. @Richard_Littler The german word for it is Wacken. :-D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacken_Open_Air @Richard_Littler that's probably the most interesting part...seeing how people that are used to being consumers of a commercial product will adjust to a network of platforms hosted by NPOs, hobbyists and enthusiasts @Richard_Littler also I'm interested to see how well mastodon as a network will deal with all the nasty growing pains of social platforms, like harassment, scamming, social engineering @Richard_Littler it’s the signage (url‘s) that indicate direction but take one too the village border tent to sign up. When the sign is converted you can find people in the village. What was reason for sharing a users account by url rather than the mastodon format? @Richard_Littler also, people should help out by contributing their own ideas or reblog interesting things they’ve seen on Mastodon! For eg, there are so many amazing artists sharing their work here now. @Richard_Littler It depends on the instance you are. Mastodon in general isn't "slow" today. But some instances struggeling with heavy load of course. @Richard_Littler I just joined maybe we need to offer server resources to host the platform so we can help make it faster. @Richard_Littler Idk I kinda like it the way it is rn. It's like a secluded little community where peace and good vibes are abundant @Richard_Littler In this scenario, the waiters are the "servers" (see what I did there?), and they are rushed off their feet! Maybe you should tip them a little? #TipYourAdmin @Richard_Littler i personally love the “rave reviews” its getting in the media… LMFAO… ok folks whats the alternative. People need to be patient, some of us smelt the smoke a longggg time ago. Twitter, lol, will inevitably go offline within the month, and im all here for it. Ehat is it, like 300 million users, will have their “voices” cut in days, including political corpos who use it for free propaganda. @Richard_Littler The fact they are coping at all is remarkable since the whole thing is pretty much a volunteer effort. I'm really impressed. @Richard_Littler not sure if you know.. but is there a way to help? I know very little about this platform but are there ways to donate say server space / bandwidth or cash or whatever else can help? @Richard_Littler Also, this only affects individual instances. mastodon.social seems to be under pretty heavy load because lots of people arrive their when fleeing the blue bird. Smaller instances are probably fine. @Richard_Littler On the plus side as a twitter refugee it is like discovering social media all over again. I'm now looking forward to wasting more time; I hope we don't all ruin it for you long standing residents. @Richard_Littler Babs and Maureen had better get it together before we go full Mad Max Thunderdome on them! We Twitter users are like the Iceni tribespeople of Britain! We are warriors born! @Alsvid @Richard_Littler Twitter is an entire Mad Max motorcycle warband except everyone is the twink from Mad Max 2. @NC @Richard_Littler Oh, I don't know, I always imagined you as Junker Queen Overwatch 2. @Alsvid @Richard_Littler I stopped playing Overwatch before she came out because it made me super salty so I am actually unfamiliar with her. [one google search later] I guess I have a new transition goal now! @Richard_Littler An accurate and colorful description. It reminds me of my visit to Innis Meáin in January. Except Babs and Maureen were vacationing in Portugal. And there was freezing rain. @Richard_Littler @Richard_Littler I just don’t understand why I’m not seeing the people I followed in my feed, but rather, almost EVERYTHING that isn’t from you admins is in German. I live in a German-heavy area of Indiana, but definitely don’t speak the language. I’ve searched settings for a fix, but no luck. @katiebuck @Richard_Littler - I don’t quite understand how the different servers communicate with each other, but when I fist joined almost two weeks ago I noticed that there was a lag between my following people and them showing up in my feed. Now, with so many more users, the lag is likely even longer. If you’re seeing a lot of German it’s likely that there are a lot of German speakers on your local server? is my guess. (Welcome!) @Richard_Littler lol yeah people need to be a bit more chill about the performance. This volume is just nuts. @Richard_Littler good analogy. Except it’s a medieval plain of these villages, you are in one, with messages between them being sent by wandering minstrels on dangerous roads. Your mayor is a self-proclaimed king in a hut down the road. Also no one knows where anyone else lives mostly. #Mastodon |
@Richard_Littler Big up Babs & Maureen!