Lots of Mastodon instances are struggling with the heavy influx of users. Twitter was the same in the early days. The Fail Whale, was something you’d see on a regular basis. Gives it a chance, things will get better.
@omar It must be hard task for people dedicating time to make things run smoothly. I just hope more of the good people I like come over. With having fast servers people we used to it’s shows how we adapted and can’t remember an a sluggish low performing platform