Looks like today's spike is the largest in a long time -- and this is why we're all experiencing lots of slowness and performance issues.

Even my small instances are being affected.

Looks like this could be a sustained spike.

5,000+ new accounts are being registered hourly

If trends remain as they are, we may break 9 million Mastodon accounts this week.

Continuing to monitor sign-ups, we not only see that 5,000+ hourly sign-ups persist, but also that it is *entirely* feasible that Mastodon could break 350,000 account sign-ups this week.

If that happens, we may break 9 million accounts this week -- and we'll definitely break that within the month.

@atomicpoet what I find more important is the "active users ratio" from here:
https://the-federation.info/

Just look at that one-day spike. It's not the new accounts that are causing the slowness, it's the old, inactive accounts that suddenly got reactivated.

This is fantastic news, I feel. These are returning people, who dipped their toes in the water before, and now they're ready to really jump in.