Eugen RochkoGood morning friends, this server is once again suffering under a heavy load of traffic and I am once again working on making it work better. Please be patient 
It took 10 hours but the timelines finally caught up. @Claire and I identified a few performance issues that only become evident once there's a ton of activity.
I can't believe @janboehm actually signed up in the meantime. Hi! I like your music! Sorry the website was slow today. 
This kind of success is as exciting as it is terrifying. Nobody prepares you for this. Every moment I am second guessing if I’m doing everything I can with the given situation.
cybik 
@Gargron IMO that just means you're doing something right.
anemoia 🌿@Gargron you're doing great
smells of bikes@Gargron you're doing great with the flood. Thank you!
Shelter 🖖🏼🏳️🌈😷
Yael Grauer@Gargron you're doing great!
Tblu@Gargron Thank you and everyone else who's worked on this so very much though. It is a relief to so many people.
(((o))) Acoustic Mirror@Gargron Thank you for your work. You're doing a great job.
Neil@Gargron congrats on the massive influx of new users! Hoping to be a contributor in the near future.
Larry Anderson@Gargron Thanks for everything you're doing, Eugen.
Malcolm Bastien@Gargron We appreciate all the hard work and continued investment over these past few years!
mastodonroufakis@Gargron thanks ! Will definitely donate once my paycheck hits at the end of the month ;)
Moonlightsiesta@Gargron Really appreciate your dedication but do make sure you take care of yourself.
KnicksRIP@Gargron To quote a critically acclaimed piece of cinema,
"You can doooo eeeet" ❤️
Lorenzo T. R. Flores@Gargron You're doing great! Thanks for the effort.
Cameron@Gargron Only so many priorities one can manage within a given timeframe and it seems you're doing awesome. Thank you!
Rohana Rezel@Gargron You're a superhero, my friend!
Justin@Gargron You’re doing great. You’ve got this. Thank you!
Blake Reilly | Ekyllier@Gargron mate, just keep doing whatever you're doing. Mastodon is popping off rn
MissingANNo@Gargron you do what you can and let the community help pick up the slack. This shows you and the community behind Mastodon have a good project for others to turn to.
Dred@Gargron this is historic! We are all very excited about this and thankful for all the hard work to make this possible! :]
MadebyPaul@Gargron thank you
benedict 
@Gargron I’m more than happy weathering the storm of growing pains if people like you are as hardworking as you seem to be! More people are rooting for you than not!
Darrel J Delfin@Gargron You're doing great! 👍
Thank you for all your hard work!
Thank you for all your hard work!
Ondřej Pokorný@Gargron One thing I'd appreciate is updating the translations on https://joinmastodon.org ... People are translating it but it's not getting pushed to the live site.
Chloeg@Gargron Thank you so much for all the work you’ve put in on this. When things move really quickly and you don’t know if you’re doing the right thing, be guided by your own principals. Sometimes your brain has to ask your heart “is this the right thing to do?” And be guided by what feels right. You’ll be good.
benjymous@Gargron Are you publishing traffic stats anywhere? Would be fascinating to see the ebbs and flows!
hypnofox@Gargron you're doing great, everything works.
Marcel Schindler@Gargron Alter, hast du das echt um 4 Uhr morgens getrötet?
Da bist schlecht für mein Programmiererimage. Ich schlafe nachts noch immer lieber :)
Yaser ✅
janszoon 🐧@Gargron i think the most of the bird-site-refugees would love a mastodon-fail-whale variety every now and then.... So no sweat!
Katrien Vermeulen@Gargron Thank you for this 🙏 beautiful platform, please don't sell it to the highest bidding billionaires...
sj_zero@miauw @Gargron It literally can't be sold.
The fediverse isn't one website. It's thousands of websites with millions of users, operating on dozens of separate software projects, all having the ActivityPub federation protocol in common.
You can no more purchase such a thing than you can purchase "The Internet". It just isn't a thing that's for sale.
We've had different parts of the fediverse decide to "go private" and stop being part of the broader whole (and websites based on open source software that nonetheless disable activitypub support and federation from day 1), and it just means people have to move to different instances that still properly federate.
That being said, it's a two sided sword: on one hand, no one person controls it so it can't be sold. On the other, no one person controls it so if you're expecting unified moderation (and the possibility of influencing that moderation) beyond the instance you're presently on, you're out of luck. Each instance is a unique website run by its own admins, so moderation decisions are limited to either content on the specific website, or the import of content from other websites (and possibly the export of content to the same other websites).
The fediverse isn't one website. It's thousands of websites with millions of users, operating on dozens of separate software projects, all having the ActivityPub federation protocol in common.
You can no more purchase such a thing than you can purchase "The Internet". It just isn't a thing that's for sale.
We've had different parts of the fediverse decide to "go private" and stop being part of the broader whole (and websites based on open source software that nonetheless disable activitypub support and federation from day 1), and it just means people have to move to different instances that still properly federate.
That being said, it's a two sided sword: on one hand, no one person controls it so it can't be sold. On the other, no one person controls it so if you're expecting unified moderation (and the possibility of influencing that moderation) beyond the instance you're presently on, you're out of luck. Each instance is a unique website run by its own admins, so moderation decisions are limited to either content on the specific website, or the import of content from other websites (and possibly the export of content to the same other websites).
@miauw @Gargron No matter what, you've always got the "atomic option": Self-hosting. Then the only person who can sell out is you.
I spend more time on websites I own and operate than any other thanks to Activitypub. My feed features users from 130 other instances, and my interactions with them are identical to as if I were on the same platform asthem.
I spend more time on websites I own and operate than any other thanks to Activitypub. My feed features users from 130 other instances, and my interactions with them are identical to as if I were on the same platform asthem.
McHollander | Celtic Folk Bard@Gargron Hang in there. This must be very stressful but you made it happen so far.
MelvinPhaser@Gargron Looking forward to great stuff happening to this platform in the future!
oldjinx@Gargron Your doing fine, nothings on fire and everyone's enjoying themselves.
activenode@Gargron I can relate. When I was younger I had a music streaming service called StreamDrag. It was cool, had a few thousand users.
Then mashable.com featured it. And I wasn't prepared for it.
And back then there was no K8s or whatever to drag a slider for more power.
I can relate :)
But apparently, at this moment, everythings working fine.
@Gargron Give me a shout if you need a hand with testing new features. I work for Testronic who have a global team of professional testers that can be deployed at short notice.
thomkennon
abortretryfail@Gargron Don't forget to take a break for yourself.
Nika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️@Gargron
You are doimg a great thing. My only advice is to stay true to yourself and your core values. I saw too many people changed because of success in a wrong way.
Rooting for you.
You are doimg a great thing. My only advice is to stay true to yourself and your core values. I saw too many people changed because of success in a wrong way.
Rooting for you.
fluxx@Gargron You're doing great! <3
Dennard Dayle / Blind Monkey@Gargron If you demanded one Tenochtitlan-style sacrifice per post, you’d still be the sanest microblogging mogul in the news.
joncamfield@Gargron you are rocking this out; it’s amazing.
Gregory Vanderlaan@Gargron I'm glad that You are having success... this is an excellent platform. I use it every day.
Seas 
@Gargron you can do this, bro!
marc [sustain release] ✅@Gargron Don't worry. You are doing great!
Bix Frankonis@Gargron Given that the new attention might mean more new instances, is any thought being given to this functionality? It would really help new admins to be able to nab some trusted instance's moderated servers list to use as a starting point. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/15664
Allow import/export of instance-level domain blocks/allows by Tak · Pull Request #15664 · mastodon/mastodon
Fixes #15095 Adds an export button to the moderator federation page and an import block to the moderator add new domain block/allow page. Blocked domains are exported along with the severity level....