I just read another news article about why mastodon didn’t make it and is dying. It’s very sad to hear and probably explains why I have to keep adding more server capacity to handle all the people quitting mastodon.
Quitting is computationally expensive.

@jerry We need to put a rate-limit on all the quit-requests so that it doesn't harm those who are staying.

No more than 600 quitting per day, something like that.

@pre this is the way
@jerry @pre
Just charge for the access to the "delete account" button. Subscription base quitting /s
@Andres @jerry @pre and if you miss a payment your account gets reinstated and the fee doubled