People on Twitter are using the shutting down of the mastodon.lol instance, to mean that Mastodon “is not a viable model”. Hard disagree.

A strength of Mastodon is that if one instance is shutting, you can easily move to another. It’s quite literally a strength of decentralised systems in action.

@gamingonlinux They are looking for anything to be an excuse. Mastodon instances have shutdown in the past but the service is still running...

...birdsite tried to add a feature and basically no one could use it for hours.

Same mentality as Win users who still see Linux as a hacker/command line only OS. They won't change.