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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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