I'm going to add another machine to mastodon.social infrastructure to ensure the people we got on here have a good experience.
Alright, it's plugged in, should be no more home feed delays ✊
To put into perspective what is happening, here is 6 month of history of the processing required to run mastodon.social:
@Gargron Thanks Twitter! 🤪
@Gargron sorry about the communism
@some_qualia @Gargron You're welcome for the 🅱️ommunism
@Gargron new users: why is mastodon.social running slow?
@gargron Do you still have data going back to last year's spike? Would like to compare the, uh, relative spikyness?
@jemus42 No, it only goes back 6 months, but yes would love to compare too.
@gargron on a related note: Has there been new news coverage of Mastodon or what's the deal with this recent influx? Did people actually *remember* Mastodon this time? :O
@InTheLandOfTheRisingSun I think this explains it.
@4n47xt oh hot damn. I doubt I could run that off of my RasPi
@Gargron ha sorry :x
@Gargron oh no i'm sorry for murdering your computers
@piffwhiffle @Gargron To make this work at scale, money has to be involved
@Gargron sorry we broke your shit bro
@Gargron ohhhh my gosh!! good job! ;o;
@Gargron we're really sorry about breaking your website
@Gargron hey that's kind of a big uptick ain't it
Huh
That's at least five full octodons of load right there. Maybe six and a half.
@Gargron Eugen it's me jackdaw ruiz from the Toot Gazette.
are you willing to give your personal impression of the influx so far, or does commenting on the tone & tenor of the user base fall outside the public face you'd like to maintain on your account? 
@Gargron that's... quite a spike
@Gargron ok yes we've all had a great time here tonight, but we came into Eugen's house and smashed up all his computers so it's only fair that we give him our money: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
@Gargron lol incredible
gron, jimmy toots here, great job on the graph. Love the line part when it goes boink. Keep it up buddy.
-jimmy toots
@Gargron Is mastodon.social running on a public cloud?
@Gargron Login attempts?
@Gargron What stupid thing did twitter do at the beginning of May? ;-)
@Gargron Guess we should have sent an advance warning that you have incoming refugees huh? 🤔
@Gargron is there a way to change your handle?
@Gargron I'm sorry, from now on I will only toot good toots to save precious resources
PSYCHE, I'M TOTALLY STILL GOING TO TOOT ABSOLUTE GARBAGE
@Gargron sorry for breaking your website that was chugging along just fine until days ago
@Gargron it’s ok king
@Gargron Gee, wonder what that spike is from...
@Gargron hey eugen...... you rule and we love you. sorry for doing swears all the time
@Gargron dayum, that's a hell of a spike.
@Gargron Neat! Also sorry!
@Gargron I has no regrets
@Gargron i’d like to apologize on behalf of all communists for beating up your server farm
@Gargron just like bitcoin
@Gargron you’d almost think this thing is catching on!
@Gargron oh wow. Incredible working keeping it all running. 🙌🏼
@Gargron noticing the bump in failed, but tiny in comparison to successfully processed: y'all are doing great. ty
@Gargron also, i recognize Sidekiq when i see it ;) thinkin about joining the project as an open source contributor (strong Ruby background, some JS too)
@Gargron Sorry! It's just so nice here. Love your work.
@Gargron That would be twitter saying, “Yeah, we’re dropping APIs that made third party clients work, but we’re also totally keeping all those Nazis. Enjoy your tweets!”
@Gargron sorry we smashed up your website