Proud of how the server architecture of mastodon.social and the code of Mastodon is keeping up with the load, but wishing for this to transform into new Mastodon servers springing up.

If you were considering starting a Mastodon server, right now would be a pretty good time. Anyone can do it from source, see docs:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

There are also hosting providers (not affiliated with me) which are super easy to work with without technical knowledge, like masto.host and hostdon.jp

Mastodon documentation

Welcome to the Mastodon documentation!

@Gargron Literally setup a instance 48 hours ago to keep my skills in infra engineering sharp.
@hyperion @Gargron Not 48 hours ago, but same stuff about a month ago. Only me here, but so much fun!
@pawelorzech @Gargron yeah. I have nagios and libre nms and grafana and a few other toilets configured. Will have auto failover running soon as well.
@pawelorzech @Gargron jusy noticed I got owned by autocorrect!
@hyperion @Gargron Man, when will you start prosucing CL4P-TP units?
@Phazoning @Gargron I wish I knew what you meant!
Claptrap

Claptrap is a CL4P-TP general purpose robot manufactured by Hyperion. It has been programmed with an overenthusiastic personality, and brags frequently, yet also expresses severe loneliness and cowardice. When the Vault Hunters leave the bus at the very beginning of Borderlands they are met by Claptrap, who introduces them to Dr. Zed. It later takes them to the Fyrestone gate in the mission Claptrap Rescue, where it is damaged by bandits. The Guardian Angel then says to get a repair kit and...

@Gargron also because mastodon is amazing. Thank you for all your hard work.