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

@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

@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