You don't need to use the official Mastodon apps, they're not the best way to use Mastodon. The official apps only arrived last year, and they were intended as "Fisher Price My First Mastodon" things with a restricted set of features.

Third party apps have been around longer than official ones, and include way more features. You can sign in with the same account on all apps.

 On Android try Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Tooot

 On iPhone/iPad, try Toot!, Ice Cubes, Ivory, Mona

For folks following #Fellas and #Ukraine, a quick starter follow list:

Defense of Ukraine
@ukrdef

Ukrinform Bot
@ukrinform

Insider UA
@insiderua

Mina Hanse
@hanse_mina

nadin brzezinski
@Nadinabbott

BenB
@benb

Ukraine
@ukraina

@scafaria ok, here's an even funnier version of the Twitter self-DDOS.

This is a video of my video of Twitter self-DDOSing itself played from a Tweet while the bug is still active and the page itself continues to flood Twitter with requests.

Now notice the trending topics in the sidebar: #TwitterDown, WTF Twitter, Rate Limit Exceeded, Damn Twitter

This might be the most perfect screen video ever recorded. 😆

#selfDDOS

Bird app down. Posting stuff here right now.

Low level Ukrainian Mi-8 operations

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.