@katherined @hehemrin I think mastodon.social got overwhelmed with a flood of new users. Counter.social is a place I have another mastodon account and it’s been off the air for two days while their admin beefs up the infra.
@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin I agree, network effect is the only thing holding it back and while I could be wrong, this time feels different from past exoduses. It could get past the tipping point.
@kyle @katherined @hehemrin Reminds me of this old discussion, for some reason:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/pointcounterpoint-twitter
@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin It's a classic.
@katherined @kyle @hehemrin He was REALLY on a rant during the writing of that one. I wish I had the raw logs still. (I probably do... somewhere...)
@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin IIRC we just did it over IRC (ironic considering the subject of the article) so I probably have logs.
Also don't forget my follow-up article the next month (also 13 years old!) where I start using Twitter once I found an IRC gateway:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-what-really-ircs-me-twitter
@katherined @hehemrin Me too. I think this has potential, if it can get critical mass...