<story><title>Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109540214666343598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>323</author><text>It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling.&lt;p&gt;Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move?&lt;p&gt;Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EarlKing</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve tried telling people before that the Fediverse doesn&amp;#x27;t scale, that decentralized solutions where nobody is paying for anything only work for flashcrowds (i.e. torrents), and ultimately this is going nowhere... but nobody wants to hear it. Everyone is sure that &amp;quot;torrents work, so this will work&amp;quot;, neverminding the fact that the entire peer-to-peer ecosystem only works as long as there are people to seed, seeding costs money, and there&amp;#x27;s plenty of content out there with zero seeders. You&amp;#x27;d think that would clue people in that this isn&amp;#x27;t going to work, but there it is. Hell, you&amp;#x27;d think the history of Usenet and FidoNet would&amp;#x27;ve given people a clue, but nobody wants to hear that either.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re not willing to pay for the services you require... you&amp;#x27;re going to have a bad time. That is the ultimate lesson of the Fediverse.</text></comment>
<story><title>Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109540214666343598</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>323</author><text>It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling.&lt;p&gt;Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move?&lt;p&gt;Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ls15</author><text>&amp;gt; What if 100 mil users want to move?&lt;p&gt;Some of the new users will have to run new servers.&lt;p&gt;For example if public officials are moving to Mastodon, I expect the state to run their own servers. It was never a good idea to allow Twitter to be a platform for (semi-)official communication.</text></comment>