Mastodon MigrationNov 19, 2022

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

Show threadDylanwau 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hayward
@mastodonmigration for simpletons like me, when you say the Techies go and increase capacity, does that mean you pop down to you local electric shop and buy a bigger computer, or what? Just so we get a flavour of the task involved
Nov 19, 2022 at 11:14amWeb
Show threadMastodon MigrationNov 19, 2022
@dylanwadu There are many ways to set up a server instance, and this may be incomplete, but here goes. Small instances of less than say 100 users can be hosted on a normal PC sized computer. Beyond that instance servers are server farms like what you see in the movies. These machines can either be owned or more often leased on a monthly basis from commercial data centers. Adding capacity means leasing more processing and storage and getting it to run Mastodon without breaking things on the fly.
Show threadMastodon MigrationNov 19, 2022

@dylanwadu Think of crawling under a bus to fix the breaks going down the motorway at 100MPH.

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Show threadGabriel PettierNov 20, 2022
@dylanwadu @mastodonmigration it can be that, or they can rent a bigger server in a datacenter, or maybe more servers, and try to distribute the load (though i don't know how possible it is with that software). It's rare to host big servers like this at home these days.