Hi! mastodon.social is being slow right now, as far as I can tell because there's twice as many people using it at the same time as ever have; I'm working on making it go fast again, but in the meantime, do remember to invite people to joinmastodon.org instead of directly to mastodon.social. People don't have to be on the same server to follow you! Thanks!
@princesalde
There are a few instances that do but they are few and far between. Mastodon.social is not one of them
@Gargron
@princesalde @Gargron Yep, no support for NFT crap built in!
@rw
No it isn't. Not funny.
@princesalde
@rw @princesalde The energy cost to run a Mastodon node is tiny compared to the amount of money wasted on a single Bitcoin transaction, mostly because the latter is so inefficient due to what is going on that it's hard to make it any worse without literally burning an acre of old-growth rainforest for each Bitcoin spent.
Bitcoin's exorbitant energy expenditure isn't due to being decentralized. It's due to the fact that in order to verify transactions, the network runs a lottery which awards Bitcoin to whichever miner can brute-force solve a mathematical problem so hard that it takes the entire network 10 minutes to solve with a power level equivalent to a small European country.
@rw @princesalde Nice Warhammer meme!
@mathlover @rw @princesalde it's made on web3. We did it reddit
@princesalde @Gargron most people on mastodon don't, including (i'm pretty sure) the devs.
is this about being free from NFT 'features' or having an echo chamber where nobody supports things you dislike?
@princesalde he's busy so I'll help.
NFTs sure as hell aren't supported here.
@princesalde @Gargron For a second I read this as NTFS and I was wondering what has that got to do lol
@princesalde @Gargron FAT32 forever! Oh wait... I read those letters wrong.
@Gargron @marstriakis for if u were wondering why it was so slow
@Gargron Noted.. no wonder. Expect traffic to skyrocket throughout the next few days.
@gargron Probably because Reuters just came out with the news that Twitter accepted Musks offer - Twitter is sold.
@Hiker Natürlich gibt es technisch gesehen keine Hauptinstanz. Will ich jedoch eine gute uptime haben, nicht ständig umziehen müssen und generell eine gewisse "sicherheit" das die Instanz nicht in den nächsten Monaten dicht macht. wähle ich die, die am Meisten Sicherheit ausstrahlt. Das ist diese oder unter umständen andere große instanzen.
@Hiker Natürlich ist es nur ein Gefühl. 100%-ige Garantien gibt es so oder so bei gar nichts. Aber ich denke, du hast die intentionen verstanden, weshalb man sich da anmeldet :)
@Hughenknubbel
wie man aktuell sieht gibt es diese suggerierte Sicherheit bei großen Instanzen nicht (auch wenn gerade noch schnell genug nach gebessert wurde sodass es nicht zum Absturz gekommen ist). und es gibt genug kleinere Instanzen die es schon lange gibt und welche, solange genug spenden für die Server kosten rein kommen, auch keine Anzeichen machen je wieder zu schließen.
@Hiker
@Hiker Hauptinstanz meint in dem Zusammenhang wohl, es ist die offizielle Instanz des Projekts Mastodon.
@gargron @Hughenknubbel
@Gargron Thank you for friendly advice! 🙂
@Gargron thank you for your service ;)
@Gargron Thanks for the update! Yes I thought the service was down completely before the site finally loaded.
@Gargron ¿Y si empiezas por cerrar los registros a mastodon.social?
@Gargron
I like and welcome the idea of 1000s. Which is to say an instance only accepts around 1000 members. Why? To prevent mega-instances.
Simply suspend the registration of new users.
lg
@tunda@layer8.space @Gargron@mastodon.social i have mine as invite only but of course i don't plan on inviting anyone except for people i know.
i think this would be a good approach though for the average instance because it would limit the amount to that much which the admins can handle approving.
@tunda
this although distributes work needed for moderation, because every instance only has to moderate its own users and the check if the instances they federate with are doing the same to roughly equal standards. so you do not have to use automated moderation systems which are very questionable.
@Gargron
@Gargron yeah a lot of us testing the waters here again :)
I think this is bc Twitter users are sharing their Fediverse account urls they registered previously which are overwhelmingly mastodon.social.
joinmastodon.org / Mastodon needs a feature to help a user share a link on Twitter which will direct their followers to find a fediverse server then follow their Fediverse account automatically.
@Gargron hi lord and savior
@Gargron I warned ya'll.
@Gargron Intrigued to be trying Mastodon out (imagine I'm doing so for the same reason as many others)
@Gargron plz let us know if more funding is needed (for more/bigger servers or a more scalable architecture, for your and/or the moderator‘a work etc). I’m sure it can be done.
@Gargron Will do! Word is out about Mastodon on Twitter so hold on tight - and thank you!
@Gargron That explains the images not loading on my end, thanks for the notice
@Gargron The process of decentralisation is a long one 
@Gargron thanks boss
@Gargron
quick question, you guys don't support nfts right? ^^;