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 not so easily. I lose all my friends from other server
@sknvlv @gamingonlinux followers can be migrated if you have time to set up a forwarding address on the old server.