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I clicked your link and found a "Why is Fosstodon currently down?" page.

• zzzeek 4y ago
  this is a tech website so I'm sure you can appreciate the need for urgent migrations given the sudden changes in userbase
  • pwinnski 4y ago
    Absolutely. Been there, lived through that myself. I'm sure you can appreciate that every one of these issues impacts the uptake of mastodon, of course.
    • zzzeek 4y ago
      fosstodon is not the server that non-technical people would be going towards in any case and it also isn't accepting new registrations right now. the main server mastodon.social, that's the big one that's getting killed also. despite all this, a lot of prominent people have joined (to be clear, left leaning journalists, attorneys and economists, but Paul Krugman did win a nobel prize)