Mastodon.lol gained 10,000 users.

Today.

@nathan Congrats on surviving that so far!! 
@nathan Whoa. is there anything we users can do to help out? (other than throw money at you via Patreon / ko-fi?
@nathan I'm competent with technology etc. and I quite enjoy helping people out so if there's anything along those lines that I can do (whilst still having a FT job and being in the Eastern time zone in NA) I'm happy to do it.
@nathan congrats and also good luck! (and thank you)

@nathan i am so sorry ๐Ÿ™

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https://patreon.com/mastodondotlol
https://ko-fi.com/atnathan

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@nathan Congrats, youโ€™re running a fantastic server :D youโ€™ve got this! <3
@nathan Thanks Elon. Seriously though, apart from the occasional timeout or 500 error, I've hardly noticed. You're doing a fantastic job keeping this ship afloat 
@nathan You are doing God's work my friend. I will pitch in soon when I can
@nathan and we all love it โœจ
@nathan Thank you for maintaining this place, looks cozy ๐Ÿ˜บ
@nathan worth just to have the .lol domain
@nathan Let's go for 20,000 tomorrow? ๐Ÿ˜…
@Ten Do you want to make @nathan nervous? ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
@nathan Thank you for everything you do!
@nathan I would be one of those. Lovely to meet you :)
@nathan Lets go for 1mil by the end of the year!
@nathan ohhhh myyy gawwwwd. i'll send you a kofi today. ๐Ÿ’œ how many users on .lol total?
@witchdyk3 Appreciate it!  60,000 compared to 8,000 at the beginning of the month 
@nathan dayummm. that's a big jump. appreciate you hanging in there so gracefully with the onslaught.
@nathan Don't be afraid to turn off signups again for a while if you need the time to recruit new admins or get some sleep or whatever you might need. Have a plan to make things sustainable BEFORE you burn out. #MastodonScaling

@nathan sweet christ, good thing you upgraded in the wee hours ๐Ÿ‘

hope you got some rest <3

@nathan Oof lots of courage and luck to you

@nathan Yikes!

And yet, that means that 10k people saw what you're doing and said, I like that, I will make this my home. That's testimony to your awesome, and also hopeful for all us  and  people... We're where we can find each other, and Make A Difference... *together*.

I've not felt this good about cyberspace since... Ever. And I was there for the Great Renaming.

Thank you... Singular and plural. Y'all make me smile, because Hope.

@nathan ๐Ÿ˜… It's been a hell of a day! 
@nathan wow that's incredible, I mean its good, but its a bit like all 2,500,000 people who wanted to go to Glastonbury festival turned up and squeezed in to the tiny middle of nowhere farm (capacity 200,000) with no infrastructure and then just sit and wait while services and utilities turn up!
@nathan The          have arrived
@nathan Are you okay, do you need a headpat or a coffee or something 
@nathan thank you for that amazing server! 
@nathan have you tried disabling all of the microservices?
@nathan Eh it'll be fine, just download more RAM right?
...
Right?
@nathan Just out of curiosity, how many did we have before the exodus from ๐Ÿฆ started?
@nathan Not sure if my skillset would be an asset but if you need help, holla. I work from home so it's pretty easy to slide in something else. You're doing a kickass job!
@nathan Oh lawd, we're really punching a hole in this place, aren't we?
@nathan as one of those 10,000 thanks for what you do!
@nathan To be fair, it probably would be less if mastodon.social allowed sign-ups, but hey, gains are gains!
@nathan hey thatโ€™s what happens when twitter goes down the shitter lol

@nathan And the best thing about this is that I'll soon be happily paying a few quid a month to you for looking after your users under very challenging circumstances rather than some manchild for a blue tick beloved by spammers and fascists.

Keep up the great work Nathan which is very much appreciated!

@nathan You're doing great ๐Ÿ˜…
@nathan Yikes! Not sure if congratulations or condolences are in order! I hope you're able to find a trustworthy co-admin or two soon so you can get some much-needed rest!
@nathan OMG ! Take care and thanks again for allowing us to have a safe space !
@nathan hope you're ready for exponential growth ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
@nathan insane numbers! I'm in awe how you're handling all of that. You're doing an amazing job! 
@nathan that shouldn't be a surprise. ๐Ÿ˜