Chris

Has anyone here set themselves up on one of the Mastodon servers? An increasingly large number of people are doing so, especially judging by the fact that it’s almost impossible to access mastodonapp.uk at all this afternoon, and the original, mastodon.social, is extremely slow, albeit actually working.

I’m on mastodon.scot, which has a fairly niche appeal so hasn’t been hit hard today and is working fine. But I have a sneaky backup account set up on mastodonapp.uk as I’m not sure how viable any of the smaller services are likely to be in the long run as they’ll be harder pressed to attract the advertising or the volunteer moderator support that will inevitably be needed if Mastodon really takes off. If Mastodon.scot looks to be in danger of shutting down, at that point I can download/import into mastodonapp.uk which I suspect will have greater longevity, once it sorts out its immediate resource requirements.