snowride509 
Jerry ๐ฆ๐๐ฆInfosec.exchange crossed 40000 accounts a few minutes ago. 7 weeks ago, we had ~180 active accounts.
Dave@jerry holy SHIT. huuuuge props for keeping it alive
Vito Botta@jerry thatโs insane. Wow
Alexis Brignoni 
@jerry congrats. Testimony to your selfless dedication to the community. ๐๐๐
Michael Olsen@jerry thank you Jerry!
John Erickson@jerry thanks for scaling up our landing pad and new home.
Axman6 | ๐ฆ๐บ@jerry So how scared does that make you feel? ๐ Big congrats, youโve done a great job building a great community of refugees, thatโs so much more peaceful than the ๐ฆค
Ellie@jerry Yikes. How many active accounts per moderator? Do those moderators all have the time and mental capacity to get to know all those people?
brad_liggett@jerry AWESOME! This platform is SO much better!
AlisonW โฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โพ๏ธ@jerry Did you realise eight weeks ago that you were destined to become a social media megacorp for the next ten+ years?
@AlisonW that was not on my bingo card
@jerry
I think that's the reason I haven't opened up my instance, though I'd be more than happy to in many ways. I'm just worried about making such a long-term commitment.
(and no, I'm not married. Dunno that anyone would put up with me anyhow)
I think that's the reason I haven't opened up my instance, though I'd be more than happy to in many ways. I'm just worried about making such a long-term commitment.
(and no, I'm not married. Dunno that anyone would put up with me anyhow)
@AlisonW I never thought I was husband material. But here I amโฆ
Leigh Honeywell@jerry hey Jerry! I see a few company accounts on infosec.exchange but wanted to see if you had any particular rules/guidelines for folks who wanted to plant a work flag on your instance. I've been chatting with other security founders about this and no-one's sure what the etiquette is ๐
Hachyderm has a policy, as an example: https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md
@leigh hi Leigh! We do not have rules against it. They will need abide by our server rules, particularly about spam. Weโve had very very few problems with that, actually no issues with security companies.
@jerry appreciate the reply! Happy to follow all the rules and be non-spammy (we donโt post _enough_ to the company twitter so not a risk there ๐
). Thank you for the work you do!
Armytrixter @jerry itโs a huge testament to the work youโve put in! We appreciate it!
ToeJam85 
@jerry absolutely crazy what can happen in the space of a few weeks when an absolute moon fruit takes over a major social network and finally educates people about the #fediverse
Sean@jerry amazing! You're doing a great job managing the instance!
๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ธ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง@jerry WOOT!
This has got to be expensive so I've set myself up to give a regular donation. I encourage others to contribute if they are in a position to do so.
Thanks the work you do Jerry!
Abra 
@jerry Wooo, that's a nice milestone!
Michaล "rysiek" Woลบniak ยท ๐บ๐ฆ@jerry clearly you are now too big to fail! ๐
Sir J Mastodon@jerry just wow๐ฎ
Linda Wesson@jerry Good for you. I'm one of your users. Random but happy to be with you.
@LindaWesson thanks! Iโm glad youโre here
Lesley Carhart @jerry happy birthday!!!
Lukas@jerry happy for you, but arenโt those two different numbers? Whatโs the current active users count and what was the then total number of accounts? Those metrics should be more comparable.
@lukstru youโre right. we had about 2000 accounts accumulated over 5.5 years, 180 of which were active on Oct 26.
Tyler Lucas 
NetSec Kahn 
Rodolfo Rosini โ๏ธโจ@jerry does that make you the newest most influential person in infosec right now?
@rodolfor hardly. There are so may more important people. Iโm just trying to give them a place to connect
NoTheOtherNick @jerry congrats!
Nerd That Talks Good@jerry thatโs insanely awesome!
Ann Johnson@jerry congrats!
Apiary@jerry wow. Congratulations!
Robert Graham@jerry It's kinda like how there's been a surge in NATO membership in the past year ๐
suldrew ๐ฒ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Hazel Weakly@jerry congrats! We're at 36,800 right now. It's... Wild
@hazelweakly Hachyderm is a great place with a great staff. Yโall make the rest of us work harder :)
@jerry aw thanks โค๏ธ you've been doing a superb job with infosec.exchange too!
Cyber Yuki@hazelweakly @jerry What was your original count? ๐ค
@yuki2501 @jerry well at one point, it was zero...
Kidding aside, infosec.exchange and hachyderm.io have maintained surprisingly close following levels throughout the entire thing. I believe we were at maybe 300ish before the "big migration"? But I didn't join until about 2000-5000ish? I think? Not actually sure
At some point we both grew by thousands every day so it was hard to keep track of that
@GossiTheDog Jerry at infosec.exchange just posted this update.
DrJekyll@jerry Nothing like a bit of growth to work out the bugs ๐
Kee Hinckley@jerry I am so damn impressed that youโve managed to keep it going (and extend it to other fediverse services!) in that time. I threw some money in the tip jar a while back, but please donโt hesitate to let us all know when more is needed.
PeoriaBummer@jerry you gave the community a refuge. Thanks for that!
Lisa Boston@jerry Wow! Good on you!
unixsh.it@jerry hi nice to meet you
Abigail Rose ๐น@jerry I picked this server at random when I made my account a month ago and I don't regret it!
BรถotesVoid@jerry In the Grim Darkness of the 21st century there is only Infosec
Tara Leonard@jerry Congrats!!! I'm so happy to see this, and I'm so appreciative you've done this. :D
Straadin 
@jerry That is some crazy growth right there. Kudos for adapting so quickly!
Simon3P@jerry wow. I'm just curious to know the disk space needed for that many users?
wedemmoez@jerry I might need your help! Iโve been trying to verify my account on infosec.exchange for several weeks but the email never arrives
@wedemmoez sure. Send me an email to [email protected]
Stefan@jerry congrats!
@jerry glad to be here!!!