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		sergiotapia on May 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So this guy is now S3. All of S3 Mastadon has no chance if every time something becomes a little bit viral it's instance dies over the traffic.

bombcar on May 4, 2023 | [–]

Mastodon is a bunch of individual instances of varying power but maybe they should build in something that detects load and archived itself and redirects to the archive.

ryeights on May 4, 2023 | | [–]

Let’s be honest… Mastodon was never going to make it outside niche technical circles, regardless of scaling. It’s a fun project though.

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