Now would be the prime time for any Mastodon admins with servers capable of accepting new users and scaling up to submit them to joinmastodon.org

More info: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant Shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]

Mastodon Server Covenant for joinmastodon.org

@Gargron Do you have a guide for running Mastodon at scale? Or are there devops tasks that need to be done to better support the project / network?
Scaling up your server - Mastodon documentation

@Gargron I submitted a few days ago, still have yet to hear anything back :-/
@Warlock I have straight up no e-mail mentioning social.nofftopia.com in that inbox
@Gargron I could maybe spin up a fresh instance in something a bit more reliable than my little solo test server later this week but the thought of remembering to moderate and maintain it has me spooked.

@esdin

go with that instinct. don't make an instance and advertise it as a place for new people to sign up if you aren't considering the perpetual need for moderation.

@Gargron nice list! Need to think especially about rule no. 3

Maybe @moellus wants to be my significant other 🤣

@Gargron my instance used to be listed there, but I guess it was delisted?
@ramsey I don't remember ever seeing it in submissions. Maybe it was when the list was uncurated and sourced from instances.social.
@Gargron Ah yes. That would be it.
@Gargron Sent an email, so now it should be in your submissions.
@Gargron Hey! Checking in on this. I haven’t heard back regarding my email. Should I interpret that as a rejection?
@ramsey No, you should not. I’ll get to it.
@Gargron Thanks! No rush, though. Mainly, I wanted to confirm that it’s still in your queue, but I was trying to do so without sounding passive aggressive, and I probably failed at that. 🙂
@Gargron where can potential administrators learn about technical specs?
@Gargron did you look into bringing Twitter spaces and communities to mastodon? The more the feature gap, the harder it becomes to leave Twitter. Entirely or partially.
@mahmoudajawad @Gargron
And a translation feature. The admins claim there is one but I have never found it
@BobC7000 @Gargron having translation built-in will be like a new era to mastodon which feels quite disconnected if you are not familiar with ten languages at least.
@Gargron can we submit pleroma instances as well? in here? 😁

i submit mine. sorry still haven't read everything in the link there, but at least the core requirements we got it. i think.
@Gargron if only we could submit Misskey instances... itd be cool to have a section to showcase non-mastodon fedi services to show those new to Fedi that there's more than just Mastodon.
@Gargron
Are there limitations for instances not to use any forked versions, e.g. glitch-soc?
@Gargron I will apply once I got my backups sorted. Currently weekly, but daily will be possible soon.
@Gargron i have no co-admin yet, but @thomas might get this role in the near future – anyway, people are still finding their way to this instance :)
@milan @Gargron @thomas Well yeah, they're awesome. I have accounts on both, but keep coming back to the .social domain for some reason.
@Gargron Mail incoming. 😄
@Gargron Was our applicaton lost? I wrote it in German. Should we reapply in English?
@Gargron I'm working on something that could handle scale -- you saw my little Kubernetes PR -- but the implications of running a big instance are sort of terrifying as you certainly understand. Is there a place that instance admins get together to chat about attracting, training, and supporting new admins for the growth this network/software deserves? I've met some great people in Matrix chats but we aren't focused on the minutiae of community development so much as that of tech implementation
@Gargron hey is there a way to add several instances to our app account? so we can flip between them with ease? (like how on the instagram app you can swap "accounts" very fast)
@anathemael @Gargron I think you can do that on the iOS app by long pressing the profile image in the bottom right.
@anathemael @Gargron if you use the official mastodon app, just long-press on your profile picture and follow the steps to add a second account
@Gargron my handle is @Davidwbeothram.mastodon.online. I’m not sure what that means.
@Gargron Are pleroma and misskey servers eligible?

@Gargron So, I don’t have the time or energy to host a server for other people (outside of my family/friend circle), but I’m wondering: as a simple user, would it better technically if I hosted my own server (with only me on it)?

I’m not asking ideologically speaking, but on a technical level.

Does load actually decrease for each individual instances if users spread out?

Hey @lianghuan @poga would you consider list alive.bar and g0v.social on joinmastodon.org?

It will be helpful for “Twitter refugees” and other new users to discover servers with considerable amount of simplified and traditional Chinese user easily thru official site.

alive.bar

你好,欢迎使用 alive.bar 社交媒体实例。 alive.bar 仅仅是一个服务器位于美国的网站,它使用了「长毛象(Mastodon)」服务。

Mastodon hosted on alive.bar
@light @lianghuan @Gargron g0v.social is already on the list.
@Gargron Link is giving me a 404 Page Not Found.