@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
@confusedcharlot just cos a bunch of self-important randos declare a thing dead doesn't mean you can't keep using it :3