ScalziYou know things are bad on Twitter when Mastodon suddenly takes forever to load.
Heather 
@scalzi Makes me glad I'm on such a small instance. ^^;
Randi Mason@scalzi We’re at the point at the wake where we’re exchanging contact info and throwing Mastodon invite shaped life savers.
glorielle@scalzi yep, I can’t get the search featur to work here right now. Massive overload.
Natania Barron@scalzi CROATOAN bad.
TomWills@scalzi gifs here are sub optimal
Andrew Trembley (he/him)@scalzi it could be worse. You could be on universeodon where George Takei just joined…
vocative
NunyaBidniz@scalzi & debirdify won't even load any more.
darkpoole@scalzi I was having the exact same thought while I waited for my page to load. And this post was at the top.
JulieHarden 
MWT@scalzi Just got back online after a day of offline work... what did I miss?
Lindsey@scalzi I figured the slow process was because their internet tubes were getting clogged.
John Panzer@scalzi DEFINTE End Times (for Twitter) sign.
Christopher Zarrella
Chris is.@scalzi speaking as an instance operator... 
Brian Dear@scalzi Red shirts having a tough time all over right about now.
serenebabe@scalzi omg! it’s so neat to see your name. this place reminds me so much of Usenet/misc.writing goodness. (minus the combat prose!)
pacanukeha❎@scalzi twice tonight I have had tweets not load either
Deirdre Statham@pacanukeha @scalzi There’s no one left to toggle switches. I read that the Twitter headquarters is in chaos. They were sending someone with a sawzall to cut the parking garage arm off. With all employee badges deactivated no one could open the gate to leave.
@deirdrestatham @scalzi the guy who controls the badges says he was pretty good this afternoon
SJ@scalzi and I think mastodon.social isn’t even accepting sign ups anymore.
Velvet Sparrow@scalzi Especially fun for us new folks...
Fade@scalzi Twitter's gotten so bad this evening they're crashing Tumblr by proxy.
Wayne Rohret@scalzi eternal September
Adam Williams@scalzi Yes it's running pretty bad tonight. inrush of traffic.
Frotee@scalzi See, that's why I chose a smaller instance 😉
Giusty4@scalzi its a hell, today i'm migrating to pleroma, and blocking whoever rants agaimst twitter. it's like hearing thousands of people being lefted by their partner crying.
Dom@scalzi everyone is grasping for clout right now 🤣 so the moment they hear new apps it’s like let’s go take it over because “social media is my life” it’s hilarious
Andy the Corsair@scalzi I think it depends on the instance. mastodon.social, being the biggest, is the slowest. At least, that's my understanding.
Rob Williams@scalzi it's either that or you know Mastadon is crippled and will never be able to carry 1/10000th the load T has...
David Scott Moyer@scalzi From what I hear, the mastodon.social instance has this problem most because it is the default where people land. No issues over at mas.to
JC@scalzi it's nuts! hahaha servers are having a hard time right now
DoIHaveTo@scalzi Exactly!