Eugen RochkoPlease direct your friends to joinmastodon.org or another instance of your choice like octodon.social, toot.cat or toot.cafe, etc. mastodon.social is "default" choice for a lot of people and it's getting kinda hammered right now.
Eugene@Gargron I apologize for contributing to that. A twitter mutual of mine directed me to their account so I joined that same instance as I didn't know at the time I could follow people in other instances. I think a couple of my own twitter mutuals ended up joining mastodon.social for the same reason 😅 . I'll be sure to link joinmastodon in the future.