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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by colin_jack on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:27PM (#33496723)
> The slowness and bugs might be due to the sudden influx of people from Twitter

Yeah definitely, feels like they should have seen this coming though. They have an opportunity that won’t come around again, and poor performance and confusing UX seem like pretty serious problems.

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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by ceejayoz on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:44PM (#33496880)
“They” describes a non-profit, low-resourced set of volunteers. Seeing it coming and being able to do something about it aren’t the same thing.
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by colin_jack on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:56PM (#33497036)
I dunno, on performance they could just have limited number of registrations to what they can handle. Better that than having potential users getting a bad impression because everything is too slow.
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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by ceejayoz on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:10PM (#33497206)
Quite a few of the larger public servers have done exactly that.
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