By the end of April, the bird site will be a substantially different user experience. Legacy check marks gone; only Blue in “For You”; no non-blue in polls.
This will have the effect of warping the entire ecosystem towards fascist shills, demagogues, and opportunists.
Now would be a good time to invest in alternative infrastructure, including making sure Mastodon instances are fast and robust. We are going to need them.
@davetroy On the other hand, we can just relax and close sign ups when necessary, and wait for people to run their own instances.
I'm not sure if it's healthy to think that mastodon has to absorb the waves from Twitter. For Twitter, as a for-profit, it made sense. More people = more money. For Mastodon: More people = more cost.
Make sure you sustain your instance, grow your mods team, built a community. People will find a place.
Dave Troy 
Sheogorath