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Eugen Rochko

I know that there's been intermittent stability issues with mastodon.social and mastodon.online recently. We're working on improving our infrastructure to address this.

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Jan

@Gargron If you need any help just ping me.

Barry

@Gargron ah, you're good man. I'm still working on my Twitter withdrawal symptoms (o:

Thanks for what you do.

MouseAT

@Gargron Thanks for the update, and thanks for all your efforts. It's good to know things are moving in the right direction, and that the issues will eventually be sorted.

Heidi Helen Pilypas

@Gargron Thank you! I noticed some issues but wasnโ€™t sure if it was just me. I appreciate your teamโ€™s work!

Tom Spettigue

@Gargron Do you guys run on a VM cluster or just a server cluster behind load balancers?

Wojtek :BlobhajPrideHeart:

@Gargron When you have time, any chance to add more emotes to mastodon.online?

Freddy

@Gargron Any plans to stimulate people to move to smaller instances?

Chip the Android

@Gargron thank you for your efforts to stabilize and improve the servers, and for communicating this! ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ˜Š We all appreciate your work and that you provide such a wonderful service to our community! ๐Ÿ’™

Yahia Lababidi

@Gargron Wishing you best of luck improving infrastructure & grateful that Mindly, for the month & a half Iโ€™ve been here, has been working, smoothly.

Long may it last ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Ray Ryan

@Gargron I hope you're ready for the US Superbowl this weekend.

Dennis

@Gargron This is one of the reasons I configured my own server; it felt slow. I also like my new username handle. ๐Ÿ˜…

Kerri Levine

@Gargron

I'm a Twitter refugee and I LOVE Mastadon.

Thanks for building it, and we appreciate your continued efforts to make it even better.

CalamusEstFortis

@Gargron Translation for those not yet in the know:

#JohnMastodon took time off to meditate and further train his powers, and his followers struggled without him, but he has now returned to them, stronger and more ready to lead than ever...

#TheResistanceWillBeFederated #Mastodon

BarbaraKB in Michigan

@Gargron thanks for communicating. appreciate your work. Iโ€™ve lost about 5-6 toots in last 24 hours. please keep informed ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

p19k

@Gargron I'm new here. What kinds of issues is Mastodon dealing with?

Lstn2urmama

@Gargron suddenly could not pin photos to put here and seems to ot functioning at all sometimes...

Bob Wyman

@Gargron
Can you say anything about the causes of the instability? Is it simply that there is a great deal of legitimate usage, or, is it the result of DDOS attacks?

shanen

@Gargron

I wish you luck, but...

If I got to pick a solution approach to donate money towards supporting, I think it would be a rebalancing tool to help people migrate away from overloaded (or otherwise unstable) servers... (#CSB)

New idea of OSS problem (apart from the financial model): In theory, anyone can modify the code, but in practice, it's dangerous to modify old code. Doesn't matter much if it's by a better or worse programmer, or even if it's your own old code.

Eugen Rochko

As promised, mastodon.online infrastructure upgraded and is now easier to scale, mastodon.social is next on the list. Our mod team grows as well!

deefdragon

@Gargron What do you use for infra/scaling for mastodon.online/social?

deefdragon

@Gargron Are you using the helm chart or custom deployments? I'm also kindof curious to the scale of the cluster.

Thomas Ricouard

@Gargron ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ

Thomas Ricouard

@Gargron do you know when the 800 newer limit for the timeline will hit .social?

jerry

@Gargron can you point me to a link that shows me how to migrate over to mastodon.social? Can't seem to find that server to migrate over to.

โœคobserverโœค

@Gargron Wonderful news.
A thousand thanks.
We are proud.
Good, very good.
Best wishes to the new and future Team of Moderators. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ’ช

Riley Testut :fatpikachu:

@Gargron thanks to everyone working on this! Honestly I donโ€™t mind the growing pains โ€” reminds me of early Twitter days ๐Ÿ™

pastora j

@Gargron
Can you explain that in English? ๐Ÿ˜Š

Oblomov

@Gargron hopefully somebody is also working on optimizing the code so less upgrading is needed ;-)

gh0sti :pika:

@Gargron how are you Guyโ€™s handling csam and abuse reports? White paper?

dmynerd78

@Gargron As someone hosting a mastodon instance, I'm curious to know how you're scaling things. Will there be a blog post or anything with more technical details?

Matthias

@Gargron It would be very interesting to read in an article how you and the team did the migration to k8s in detail. Especially about the practical experiences, obstacles, the sizing of the worker nodes and learnings.
Obviously this is interesting for other Mastodon operations teams.
But also for the migration of other distributed systems there is a lot to learn.

Peter Baumann - ApolloDS

@Gargron Can you explain how you did the enhancement in scaling?
It would be knteresting.

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@Gargron keep up the good work!! Thank you!

artisanrox

@Gargron Thanks ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ team

๐ŸคŸ :scremcat: ๐ŸคŸ

Sujeet Sharma

@Gargron hello, can't you start a instance like mastodon.com or mastodon.org? Just checking...

Ben Gillam :bongoCat:

@Gargron good to hear, I was considering moving to avoid it but donโ€™t want to lose all my posts. Again.

Malintent

@Gargron can't thank you enough for your dedication and hard work!

Good Think Hunting

@Gargron Hey ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿผ I love your content, but I am highly allergic to cathair and therefore do not enjoy the cat content. Is there any chance u bring the cat content on another account?

David

@Gargron what you do is greatly appreciated. Mastodon is a great platform and you've done a brilliant job with the influx of new people.

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