the way we live now:

Bluesky informs me Twitter is down, and also that Bluesky can’t handle the resulting surge in use, so I come to Mastodon to post about it

Oh my goodness... a LOT of new people... 😮 Welcome! 👋

If you need help with using Mastodon and the Fediverse, have a look at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written for a non-technical audience, and hopefully answers most beginners' questions.

If you're looking for accounts to follow, there are lots of ways to do it summarised here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

If you have any problems, ask me and I'll try to help!

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.

“Drugmaker Eli Lilly caps the cost of insulin at $35 a month, bringing relief for millions”
-via NBC news

That feeling, when an evil multinational pharmaceutical company is more benevolent than every single member of the GOP.