i've opened registrations again on this instance, everything appears to be working. the federated TL has traffic. will look into email forwarding in the near future!
anyone else pop into twitter like once a day and just be like "uhh yeah so mastodon, it's still awesome, with each passing day i understand less when i come on here and see the fighting, i miss some of you but uh... yeah. alright bye now"
i don't know what else to say when i go on there now