One of the new folks here called it "The Muskodus" and yeah, sure.
@sage hey let us know if we can throw money your way to help out
@johnharper @sage same. Will help if we can!
@PrintInkling @johnharper @sage Same here.
@sage setup an onlyfans for this instance
@sage do you have/have you considered anything set up for donations to keep the server running? The other instance I'm on is a small, local one, and a number of us contribute (regularly or irregularly) to keep that community afloat. A public radio model, if you like.
If everyone contributes a few bucks to it periodically, that could help keep it going even if the numbers and load tick upward.
@sage Thin-skinned billionaire found the marble in the Twitter! Mastodon gets to drink from the fire hose!
@sage I have seen the instigating incident referred to as "Elongate", and I think that works pretty well, although some might claim it's a stretch.
We've now reached the point where when I approved a batch of new accounts there's ofter more to approve when the page reloads…
I suspect we may hit scaling issues sometime soon and I will throw money at the problem, but I want to see how far we can scale on the current budget first. It's definitely slowed a bit, but not bad for me so far.