Comment by weglasern
3 years ago
Not really: hhttps://leah.is/posts/scaling-the-mastodon/ They just got 6 times the normal requests: https://chaos.social/@ordnung/110312089838674624
3 years ago
Not really: hhttps://leah.is/posts/scaling-the-mastodon/ They just got 6 times the normal requests: https://chaos.social/@ordnung/110312089838674624
unfortunately this is exactly why mastodon won't work
I already don't trust mastodon links because 9 times out of 10 they simply don't work. Everyone's tiny hobby server falls over when one post gets big, and obviously not everyone is going to scale their servers to support the load of a viral post that might happen once every 6 months and will be 100x their base load
That is the benefit of centralization, the experience for the end user can be controlled completely. Maybe a Mastodon friendly web cache that anyone running a semi-serious instance could easily opt into (for a fee) is needed. As a hedge to keep your Raspberry Pie instance online if something goes viral.
As a community effort where no one is expecting to get rich it might work.
When someone finds an annoyance, often even anecdotal, that is no evidence of why "Mastodon (or the fediverse) won't work".
It's an annoyance, often anecdotal at most. Not the foundation of why a platform cannot ever "work".
Mastodon is by design about small niche communities rather than centralised twitter alternative.
That is not the point.
If someone sent any link or post that is from that Mastodon instance and it went viral, the entire instance will be sent to the ground and out for hours, making the post unavailable to be viewed.
The worst part is journalists and the media have to be told that posting a link from a 'small niche community' on Mastodon will send a flood of traffic that will knock it down offline also giving the impression to others that it is not ready for mainstream at all or even ready to onboard on tens or hundreds of millions of users, daily like Twitter.
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