Remember: Running a Mastodon server well isn't free or even cheap. If you have the means, consider financially supporting not just the Mastodon project generally, but also your local instance.

There's likely to be another stampede of new users here, and while more voices will make this system richer and more useful, it will inevitably also put a strain on existing resources.

@mattblaze I'm more wondering how the federation is going to scale. It already seems to be creaking, tonight.

Absent some (newer?) nodes moving to paid memberships, not sure how site's will fund themselves without resorting to data harvesting activities: seems unlikely you're gonna get VCs hopping on.