i love masto, but it turns out 500 characters aren't enough to described how borked things are with federation right now.
@confusedcharlot i suspect the problem is how bogged down mastodon.social is right now - if more people from there moved to other instances in the fediverse the problem might start going away
@typhlosion i'm not knowledgeable enough to know what's really going on, but it feels like something broke under heavy load that has yet to be fixed
@typhlosion @confusedcharlot eugen showd the stats, it was showing about 10% failure rate of any given request out of ~10,000,000
@bleak @confusedcharlot whoaaa. i wish i could do something other than throwing a lot of money i don't have at his patreon ;-;
@typhlosion @confusedcharlot you're already doing it! (i.e. not using his instance)
@bleak sooooon we will federate in harmony
for now i'll content myself with this smaller, fuzzier space until i can follow all my pals over there on here
@typhlosion i'm feeling the urge to make a second non m.s non a.s account for redundancy's sake
@bleak @typhlosion i have a icosahedron.website account, but i'm not following anyone from there yet
@bleak any particular instance you're looking at? icosahedron, maly, some other?
@typhlosion i'm just whining because very important ppl :tm: have already declared masto dead.
i just want to stay and be gay with all my animal friends.
@confusedcharlot just cos a bunch of self-important randos declare a thing dead doesn't mean you can't keep using it :3
@confusedcharlot yeah, i guess that's just new tech blues at the moment. i'm sure the infrastructure will improve if we give it time