Here's the problem.
Recent growth on mastodon.social is greater than the growth rate of November 2022.
But growth on other servers, like mstdn.social, has flatlined.
This has been confirmed to me by numerous Mastodon server admins.
Very concerning!
@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social
Could it be that just like me and new here, the mastodon handle seems a bit more familiar than the mstdn one? I not being the sharpest knife in the drawer just chose simple and familiar until I find my sealegs!
@DrSprockets There's lots of mastodon handles: mastodon.online, mastodon.cloud, mastodon.world, etc.
Hi Chris. That line graph could be misleading. Last November the influx was sudden and not planned for. AFAIR mastodon.social was immediately overwhelmed and had to shut registrations. Other instances got the deferred load (until they in turn got overwhelmed).
This time mastodon.social obviously planned for the extra registrations their new policy would generate and, until yesterday's unrelated debacle, could take all-comers.