Hello all❤️ I am so sorry for all the issues on mstdn.social the past days..  

Two nights ago over 11K new people joined mstdn.social via invite links while I was asleep and this made the total active people on here to 53K.

The current issue / battle I'm fighting is to keep up with the background jobs for proccessing toots, follows, etc etc.

Please know that I'm doing my best. I've also setup an extra instance to spread the load a little on https://masto.ai 

It's actually pretty amazing that a open source product developed by a tiny non-profit, running on a network of servers self-funded by volunteer administrator and moderators has managed to absorb some portion of one of the world's largest for-profit social networks.

It's a miracle the whole thing didn't collapse or catch fire.

Great job everyone.

Hi everyone! Please exercise patience as we weather the wonderful storm of people joining from Twitter.

The next few days might be a bit rocky. We've had thousands of people sign up the past few days.

You may experience slowdowns, delayed emails, delayed notifications, and some lag on your timelines. This will improve in time.

#IrishMastodon #Mastodaoine

Huh. I didn't realize this particular fact (from the Mastodon intro blog):

"Hashtags are a really important thing on Mastodon. In fact, they are the only part of the content of toots that is searchable. So if you want to be found by people who are looking for toots about photography it’s best to include #photography."

Good to know that *only* hashtags will show up in searches. Very different from the bird place. #introduction #twittermigration #mastodon