Dang, I was up at 3AM in the night waiting for the @ivory beta but their post with the link showed up 13 minutes delayed on my end. No luck for me.

Mastodon isn't good at propagating posts in near real time.

@simonbs @ivory its a followers only post so won't show on their own instance.
@aaron_pearce @ivory Ah, right! I forgot that when writing the post. Removed that part of my post to avoid bashing too much on Mastodon.
@aaron_pearce @simonbs @ivory Aha! Now I get it... I was super late anyway. But good to know. 👍🏻
@simonbs @ivory yeah, seems any sense of “real-time” is not going to work on this platform. One advantage of centralized over decentralized...
@simonbs The reason it doesn't show up on tapbots.social is because the post is only visible to followers. When you are viewing tapbots.social, you aren't logged in to an account.
@simonbs For what it's worth, I saw it at basically the same time and lots of other people also say they didn't see the post until around 12-13 minutes after the hour. I'm guessing that was caused by tapbots.social falling over rather than a Mastodon federation issue.

@simonbs yeah, they did a “follower-only” post, hence the “Fediverse” comment 😂

Let’s hope it push to our instance faster next time I guess …

@simonbs 18 minute delay here but I somehow got in. 🤷‍♂️
@simonbs it made me question whether I really understand how federation works. I was refreshing their profile directly (on their website too) and I didn’t see it until 10 mins after it was posted.
@simonbs the same thing must have happened to me. I had my home page, ivory page on my Mac and iPhone open refreshing and it appeared late for me 😞
@simonbs @ivory same for me. Up until 2am and didn’t see the post until 2:12am. Productive use of time. 🤦🏼‍♂️
@simonbs Same here with the post not showing up for a while. No luck this time for me either. Hopefully we can enjoy @ivory soon! I hope you get some sleep now!
@simonbs same. I had notifications set up but missed it by a lot. The early post psyched me out. And potentially I had an old TestFlight link?
@simonbs it also illustrates how difficult it is to tune in to some “live event” and see the social commentary, unless all those people already exist in your graph.

@simonbs @ivory same here, I was refreshing the feed like a maniac 😂

At least it is only 11pm over here 😅

@simonbs Same here! Better luck next time! 🤞
@simonbs @ivory First comment on that post, but yet, 12 minutes after it went live, and already full at that stage. 😔

@simonbs @ivory Yep! Same thing here. (Through not fault of the Talbots folks, of course.)

The irony is that the “5 minutes!” post and the accidental post before that were propagated instantly. Murphy’s Law at its best.

Here’s to hoping for better luck with tomorrow’s batch. 🤞

@simonbs Something funny was up with their instance, I couldn’t even load the page directly. The beta must be REALLY popular.
@simonbs I was able to get in but had to refresh Ivory’s page for about 10 minutes
@simonbs The „5 minutes to go“ toot was on time for me. I think after that their self-hosted instance got hammered too much :D
@simonbs @ivory same here, was setting an alarm for 2:59 … it’s better to have two chances for a slot, but I really don’t get my hopes up for tomorrow after getting the post in my timeline 15 minutes after it was posted. I did get to see a new (at least for me) alert in TestFlight though saying TestFlight isn’t available before it was switching to „Beta is full“. Seems like it was a close call 😥
@simonbs you must have just missed it as I saw it 13 min after the hour too and got in.
@simonbs @ivory Hope you snag it during the next round 10-11 hours from now.
@simonbs @ivory also, the post with test flight link is limited to followers only, so there might be some issue with you being able to see the post that way. I suggest getting one of the other Mastodon apps and opening their profile that way.
@simonbs @ivory Same! (Well, not the 3AM part. 😬) Hope you get some rest and good luck next time around!
@simonbs @ivory same thing happened to me. That could be the nudge I need to migrate onto a smaller instance.
@simonbs @ivory out of curiosity, did you also enable Notification on that account, curious if that’s more reliable?
@mamadlin @ivory Yes. The notification also arrived late.
@ivory @simonbs which is actually good:) the non real time