Eugen Rochko
When recommending to your friends, give the other instances some love too: https://instances.mastodon.xyz/ It looks like mastodon.social is under even heavier load than yesterday right now
Apr 3, 2017 at 3:34pmWeb
Show threadLezarius [Principale]Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron if you want im starting an "spawn" page for new user, for select server before inscription =P
Show threadMarmotte(Choco)Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron in some futur it's possible to just move a account to a other side of mastodon and keep all TooT and follower?
Show threadÅldα => [email protected]Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron Maybe block registration and put a message on the front page ?
Show threadimoApr 3, 2017
@gargron hui, the list has grown since yesterday
Show threadNolanApr 3, 2017
@Gargron I'd love to hop on mastodon.xyz but it seems like you see different replies if you're on the main instance vs the other ones. 😕 https://mastodon.social/@Murassa/1474784
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 3, 2017
@nolan @Murassa The instance of the original poster receives all replies directed to it. Other instances receive only those replies that they would normally receive from following the authors, i.e. original poster's instance does not redistribute replies to its post. I don't see how it's a problem: original author sees all replies, if you get mentioned, you receive that also. You're only missing out on stuff that doesn't affect you much.
Show threadNolanApr 3, 2017
@Gargron @Murassa Wouldn't this discourage people from joining non-Mastodon.social instances though? You're missing out on what the vast bulk of other users are seeing.
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 3, 2017
@nolan @Murassa I don't see how. As more people follow each other, the number of missing stuff on each individual instance goes down.
Show threadNolanApr 3, 2017
@Gargron @Murassa I dunno, that may work in a world where multiple instances have roughly the same number of users, but today there's essentially a huge UX improvement by being on mastodon.social because that way you see the full conversation… 😕
Show threadzyuiop | LouisApr 3, 2017
@Gargron Why don't you implement a hard limit on the number of accounts registered on the same instance ?
Show threadzyuiop | LouisApr 3, 2017
@Gargron Something the owner could configure, like "40k users max", and then the users would be redirected to other instances if they want to register
Show thread[MOVED] lertsenemApr 3, 2017
@Gargron Wouldn't it be a good idea to close the inscriptions on mastodon.social to redirect the traffic to other instances ?
Show threadTed Han ★ 韓聖安Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron Yeah, i think you're about to hockey-stick. I'm def seeing folks pick up on Mastodon and pile in :)
Show thread☤Hermes۞_۟۞凸λgistus☿Apr 3, 2017
@gargron Is there a way to view the public TL without an account like one can with GNU Social? I recommended to a bunch of my followers to check it out to get a feel for an instance before registering, but I'm not sure how that would work with mastodon.
Show threadLe Faviste [SENSITIVE CONTENT]Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron yes this instance is actually the best for me
Show threadAaron Williamson 🍄Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron I think this would feel a lot safer to me if there was an oauth way to hot-import my whole account from another instance if it was going to go down. Makes it almost zero cost to hang out on an unproven instance.
Show threadIain ColemanApr 3, 2017
@Gargron New users having to know about things like instances is the thing most likely to limit the growth of mastodon
Show threadQyv (;* has moved *;) 🍍Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron Just moved across to xyz instance (:*
Show threadNiels K.Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron does mastodon.social have any means to create a cluster for an instance?
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 3, 2017
@nielsk mastodon.social is clustered between 5 virtual private servers
Show threadEugen RochkoApr 3, 2017
@nielsk if you're asking about the software being capable of scaling horizontally - yes
Show threadNiels K.Apr 3, 2017
@Gargron ok…I don't want to know then the load they have right now. Is there something like a patreon for donating to the project?
Show threadLloydApr 4, 2017

@Gargron nice article !

It might be nice to add an image to the post so it entices more ppl to read it when shared on other social media sites :)

Great work btw :)