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why? a single app running on a single server is several orders of magnitude more resilient than a spaghetti clusterfuck of services upon services. twitter could

• colesantiago 4y ago
  most of the mastodon instances I saw were: - ghost towns with little to no one there. - didn't open registrations. - completely dead with ssl invalid certificates with expired domains. So you would have to keep moving to another mastodon instance (if you're lucky) or try and run your own instance and join the many instances with the three issues above. There is no monetary incentive to keep a mastodon instance running and we both know that begging for donations doesn't scale.
  • throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
    well, those are outright abandoned
  • broodbucket 4y ago
    There's a gigantic flood of new users (i.e. literally multiplying the userbase) in the past few weeks, so yeah, a lot of servers are restricting signups to cope. I don't think "begging for donations" needs to scale, if instances get too large to keep running then smaller instances should (and do) split off, they can still talk to each other after all. There's an actively maintained public instance list here: https://joinmastodon.org/servers https://joinmastodon.org/servers