@Richard_Littler yep. It'll get better, but it's gonna take time.

@Richard_Littler in an odd way, this is the perfect reassuring explanation for what's going on!

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@Richard_Littler well said 😀

@Richard_Littler makes perfect sense

@Richard_Littler Brilliant analogy.

@Richard_Littler a veritable online fyre festival

@Richard_Littler love the simile

@Richard_Littler thank you for a good reminder. Perhaps the early Twitter adopters will become hosts and helpers. Sorry if I used wrong terminology. Just joined yesterday.
I remember well bird from 2006! There was hardly anyone there, just an SF type village. I was totally out of the loop so decided to follow people with same first name.

@Richard_Littler it’s basically this….

@Richard_Littler @carolinehelene find a smaller instance would be my advice.

@Richard_Littler Not long signed up. Finding you here was great. Like moving to secondary school and noticing that someone you know has ended up in your class.

@Richard_Littler perfect!

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not only #mastodon is slow - also the other systems like #friendica get slower the messages

@Richard_Littler 😂 😅😅

@Richard_Littler Babs and Maureen own the gourmet chip shop too

@Richard_Littler that happens. Like look men we needed a place to crash after musk killed the last hellsite

@Richard_Littler I want to be Mrs Overall.
(don't tell anyone)

@Richard_Littler sorry but I’ve seen Come From Away. It’s possible to cope with an unexpected influx /s

@Richard_Littler 😄
Great explanation!

Currently writing up the agenda for what appears to be my 50th @UACES officers' meeting! What a milestone!

@Richard_Littler hahahaha

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Lol! Great analogy

@Richard_Littler we’re from that large Metropolis TwitterTown. We don’t do relaxed! We arrived in expensive EVs double screening with iPad and iPhone for our multiple accounts and will now demand organic flat whites and low carbon miles brunches.

Well, fhe cool kids will. I’m more macchiato.

@Richard_Littler That did make me chuckle :D

@Richard_Littler I miss Twitter already. Little to do with speed.

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@BilliardLentil

BEER ME!

@Richard_Littler thank the gods for Babs & Maureen!

@Richard_Littler I totally agree with the point you're making, but I wish the slugginess was less jarring.

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@Richard_Littler this also depends a lot on which server you end up on. The big instances might be struggling, but the smaller ones are likely to be fine (our's certainly is atm). That's one benefit of decentralisation.

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#AwesomePost #LBCFame

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Relax is often good advise!

@Richard_Littler 😂😂😂 You are so right. It’s gonna take some time to accommodate all the new accounts. Patience is what’s needed.

@Richard_Littler I decided to go poke around the little town and found many wonders here .

@Richard_Littler @meptrsn shades of “come from away”, where at least the place everyone showed up is trying to be friendly

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I always suspected it was Babs and Maureen's fault all along.

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Absolutely loving that comparison. Now I wish I could go to Babs' & Maureen's for lunch myself :blobfoxaww:

@Richard_Littler I think many of are new and feeling our way

@Richard_Littler I adore this visualisation! Someone get around back and help with the dishes! Someone help Babs with the scones! Someone go to the shop and get some milk!
I think a lot of us see our social media platforms as something outsourced, whereas Mastodon feels more of a community effort. Positives and opportunities for improvement though!

@Richard_Littler And each server / instance is a different village, with people going off to try the next village when the queue's too long. We're overwhelming a whole region of small villages.

@Richard_Littler Brilliant!

@Richard_Littler mansplaining and homophobia in one post. And here I thought this was a better place than Twitter. *sigh same sh*t, different place

@Richard_Littler ROTFLOL!!! Excellent comparison!

@Richard_Littler I can perfectly imagine such a tearoom! :D We had one like that in town!

We did not, however, have 1 million people queueing up, thankfully. ;)

@Richard_Littler patience my dudes it will be okay. Remember to be respectful of the locals and longtime dwellers.
Think The road to Hana ,Hawaii its 25 miles but at 10mph and 59 one lane bridges it can take hours to navigate.

@Richard_Littler mansplaining and homophobia in one post. And here I thought this was a better place than Twitter. *sigh same sh*t, different place. We will come back when you can handle all the people you invited in. Tribel here I come!

@Richard_Littler yeah. Massive influx to Mastadon at a high rate of demand. There's bound to be bottlenecks but they'll get there.

@Richard_Littler 😂

@Richard_Littler @tayledras as one of the newly arrived pilgrims I can say that there are many of us basking quietly in the sun in the adjacent field and occasionally offering a helping hand to Babs & Maureen when asked. The loud ones will eventually move on or quiet down.

@Richard_Littler this analogy is seriously funny.😂...I love it!

@Richard_Littler It is complicated to find the new people on mastodon

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Quite

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But Babs and Maureen are just fabulous, aren't they?

@Richard_Littler If you wanted me to bring a bottle to the party you could have said

@Richard_Littler@mastodon.sociExactly, I noticed how slow it was and thought "what a pain." Then after thinking for a second, I realized that it was because people are flooding to the site, and that is great.

@Richard_Littler I like that picture.👍

@Richard_Littler Thank you so much for your message on Babs & Maureen. Doing a great for us. Nice to have some tiny peak in the background of all this.

@Richard_Littler this is why choosing a good instance / server is essential. I have a mastodon.social account that is fairly slow right now, but this HCI.social instance (run by Princeton University) is perfectly fine.

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This is a great analogy

@Richard_Littler amazing analogy! Good analogies really make life so much more understandable!

@Richard_Littler very specific richard

@Richard_Littler Babs and Maureen doing a sterling job so far.

@Richard_Littler NOT GAY PENSIONERS🫢😂

@Richard_Littler OK! Mastodon will make me laugh. That’s why I’m here.

@Richard_Littler I remember the "fail whale" in Twitter's first years... Twitter had a lot of downtimes back then.

@Richard_Littler I arrived back in April and I've been on my own waiting for you all to arrive. On the plus side, I've bagged the best table in the tearoom!

@Richard_Littler 1 million only?

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Hah! You're folllowed. My first Mastodon laugh!

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I smell a Broadway musical like Come From Away!

https://comefromaway.com/

@Richard_Littler That’s me! I just signed up. Sad about Twitter.

@Richard_Littler but but, I demand my Latte! 😉

@Richard_Littler This is a great analogy 😂 Quite like my experience when I joined (only) 19 days ago. More recently... I hiked up a nearby mountainside and joined a smaller group of biologists doing fieldwork 😉 #TwitterMigration #NewInstance

@Richard_Littler ♥️ love the way you describe this!

@Richard_Littler Thank you. I was hoping for a more relaxing, and slower-paced social hangout. Whew! Sometimes one just needs to slow down and listen.😀

@Richard_Littler haha love the analogy

@Richard_Littler I hope you don't mind but I nicked your toot and posted it on the bird site.😂

@Richard_Littler Also, maybe don't try to pile everyone into one single instance. A lot of the smaller more-focused instances are running just fine at the moment. It wasn't supposed to be that everyone joins just that one server.

@Richard_Littler I'm only here for the bourbons and pink wafers.

@Richard_Littler "Mr. Yasgur, can we please use your restroom?"

@Richard_Littler we love you Babs & Maureen! You're doing great, hon!

@Richard_Littler That's awesome, good one.

@Richard_Littler well said! lol

@Richard_Littler 👏🏻👏🏻

@Richard_Littler if that little tearoom exists IRL, I want details 🌈✨

@Richard_Littler I know where mastodon can get a whole bunch of new employees.

@Richard_Littler Nice analogy. Made me smile :mastogrin:

@Richard_Littler My one criticism of the Karen culture finding its way from “that other place” —- people just relax. You’ll live longer!

@Richard_Littler As somebody who's been around here for a while [¹] I've been very pleasantly surprised that the fedi has stood up to the recent onslaught so well.

[¹] Current account is new but it's a recent move from another instance where I was active for 5 years.

@Richard_Littler Folks panicking after reading the RIPTwitter meme trending😁

@Richard_Littler Best description EVER 😂
(Fan of Babs&Maureen already)

@Richard_Littler my first thoughts when mastodon.social was slowing down again were:

- twitter must have taken another turn for the worse
- I should go outside.

@Richard_Littler Its not so much for me that it's slow, but I have no idea how this stupid place works.

@Richard_Littler Great news though. A bunch of twitter developers and ops just entered the job market. Would be great if we could crowd fund some of them a salary working on Mastodon. Let's not their expertise go to waste!

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A wee bit like the experience of the people of Lampedusa when the Costa Concordia went down…

@Richard_Littler calm? CALM?!?! SOME OF US NEED TEA AND TEACAKES!!!
Do you not understand? Doilies darnit MR Littler, DOILIES!