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> Otherwise just go for any "general" server That's exactly what I tried, and failed, to do. As far as I was able to discover, including via the site being dis
by Joeboy 4y ago
> Otherwise just go for any "general" server
That's exactly what I tried, and failed, to do. As far as I was able to discover, including via the site being discussed here, there are no such servers currently available for new signups.
- berkes 4y agoI'm sorry to hear that. The influx is big currently. Many servers can barely handle all the signups and extra load. So this is temporary, and certainly not a fundamental issue.
- Joeboy 4y agoThank you! This is a much, much better response than the denialism I'm seeing in other replies.
- olliej 4y agoI’m not convinced that this is a temporary issue - the mastodon servers seem to require relatively high upkeep (cost, cpu, and manual time) for relatively few users, which naturally leads to instances reducing/blocking new accounts and even just shutting down, which further exacerbates the load on other instances.
- berkes 4y agoAs I wrote in an earlier thread[1], this indeed is a problem. With mastodon. But as numerous people replied, many alternatives are ready or wip. Many of them make hosting really easy. Since that thread I tried several. Gotosocial being my favorite, now. So this too isn't fundamental. Because 'mastodon' is about much more than this one piece of software. It's a network, the fediverse. And you can easily host a near 1-1 mastodon alternative today on a cheap, VPS. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120136&p=2#33120419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120136&p=2#33120419