John SiracusaKudos to all the various Mastodon instances for not falling over during the WWDC keynote. I used Mastodon just as I would have used Twitter in years past, and it worked great.
René Fouquet@siracusa Indeed, I didn’t really notice a difference. Same energy too.
SENTINELITE
Geoff Green@siracusa it was a fun day, a bit like twitter during live events in its heyday.
Ángel Domínguez 🎹 
@siracusa Here’s hoping you discussed this option on your special ATP episode: https://mastodon.social/@ahe/110497119703202852
Philipp@siracusa Had the same thought and experience yesterday. First time not browsing through Twitter during WWDC, but Mastodon did not disappoint 😊
Ged Maheux@siracusa Yep, I was pleasantly surprised.
Chris Atzinger
Stephen Hackett 
@siracusa Small servers fell pretty far behind. Some folks saw my posts like 30 minutes late.
Marina Epelman
Steve Williams
Björn Láczay
Tristan@ismh @siracusa One of the tricks, as I learned yesterday, is smaller instances subscribing to ActivityPub relays via event-relevant hashtags. Relays like FediBuzz will let your instance subscribe to specific hashtags, rather than the default firehose of all posts. That way the smaller folks can get more timely posts and things get pushed out to the wider fediverse quicker (as long as others are subscribed too). https://relay.fedi.buzz/
Emily Fox 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Caleb
Lex Friedman@ismh Oh wow! I thought you were just watching on delay for some reason. This makes more sense.
Alex Padilla
Daniel Breslan
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈
Brian Grinter
Ken@siracusa Having been off Twitter a little while, it was very nice to have the real-time social reaction back to enjoy alongside the keynote
@siracusa I didn't realise the tech people I follow have really left Twitter. My Twitter feed was so quiet during the keynote.
Yaniv Klein 
@siracusa I use my own little managed Mastodon instance so yesterday was loads of fun for me..
IverCoder@siracusa some real efficiency these instances must have.
MyOpinion@siracusa It was a fantastic experience here on Mastodon.
Wayne Boyd - Science writer@siracusa I have no idea what you're talking about. WWDC keynote? What's that?
Josh@wayne636 The Apple keynote (Worldwide Developers Conference)
Rob@siracusa The experience was great indeed; even on my personal single-user instance, without using relays.
Paul Thurrott@siracusa This is like clapping when a plane lands. Shouldn't that success be the baseline?
Joe Finney@thurrott maybe more like a sigh of relief when the plane lands with no issue in a bad storm.
Eugene Kim@siracusa I wasn’t able to follow along in real time due to my jobby-job but coming back to a timeline of hundreds unread in the span of a morning hit me right in the feels.
Eric Bowers@siracusa Agreed! It was nice to follow along.
Andrewkfb@siracusa honestly was expecting the same thing lol
Stephen Brannen@siracusa I feel like Mastodon worked better than Twitter in past years. I'm not sure if it's a user error, but I'd always have issues with refreshing my feed (using a third party app).
eobet@siracusa Because there’s no algorithm to push corporate crap on people who don’t care about such things. 😉
@siracusa just a great post
I like it straight to the root
I like it straight to the root