I'm really not worried about Mastodon scaling issues at all.
When I left Twitter in 2008, we had roughly twice as many users as the current combined Mastodon network, all running on one MySQL server that had the same specs as a high-end 2013 MacBook Pro, plus roughly 10 web servers and 5 queue servers.
To be fair, growth wasn't as rapid, and we had local-infra advantages over federated systems, but these problems are solvable and I have no doubt will be fixed soon.
*Hugops to all admins!*
Study (preprint) found that bivalent mRNA booster vaccines broaden humoral immunity against the Omicron BA.2.75.2 and BQ.1.1 subvariants.
Latest for @FT@twitter.com: I interviewed Ukrainian troops who defended Mariupol, were inside Ilyich & Azovstal plants, & after being captured by Russian forces spent time in hellish Olenivka prison & prisons in Russia before swapped in September. This is their story: https://www.ft.com/content/bca9a078-b016-4dd3-9cfd-36329243f998
#Photomonday Stumbled onto this group, always enjoy new photography. I was treated to this Sunset on Skyline drive in Shenandoah National Park.
It has been done. https://blacktwitter.io/about (https://jacky.wtf/2022/11/PPwN)
My god, youse guise. So much positive #influenza today. It was probably 80% of our urgent care pts. Wear a mask. The flu sucks.
Just a reminder to folks that are here from bird site, please include your mastodon handles in your profile over at twitter so folks who follow you can migrate here.
Fedifinder here doesn't just help you track your followers over to here, it'll also tell you if it can find your account in your own profile to help *your* followers too https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
A quick apology to our new friends in the Mastodon world: we, the Twitter weirdos, are not just here as our former abode turns into a trainwreck we can't stop gawking at, we're also here right before a U.S. general election day, which always puts us on edge.
We'll be normal soon.
Well, a little closer to normal.
Yeah sorry about birb news but this is just... Good Christ. Via platformer.com — Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall. He is a disaster of a human being, but that is being far too generous.
https://www.platformer.news/p/musk-discusses-putting-all-of-twitter
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