@Gargron Kudos and congratulations.

I'm a bit confused with one thing, though: how does that relate to the 7 million accounts counted by @mastodonusercount ?

Is it just that there are 5 million inactive accounts, or is there more to it than that?

@feditips Interestingly, that's how Youtube is now treating in-site identities (incl. channels and such). Any relation?

@feditips Yeah, thought so.

Still, I found the coincidence interesting. This is a very recent change they're doing there. Actually I think they're still rolling it out. Funny that they chose the exact same format used in the fediverse.

@Gargron Just a heads up, Eugen. Neil Gaiman is here now. And I'm pretty sure he'll be bringing in a nice little chunk of his 3 million twitter followers.

Just so you won't be totally caught off-guard.

@Gargron It's OK, Eugen. We understand how the unexpected load can affect performance.

It's still much better than the early days in Twitter, with all those flying whales.

We can wait.

@Gargron great job.

I'm not sure you are aware that whatever your optimization was it seems to have broken instance and federated timelines on tusky. Not complaining, just informing.

@feditips Well, I tried to do it, with Friendica. Didn't work.

Are there version constraints in that?

@feditips Custom emojis are usually very, very bad, though.

People just upload whatever images, not thinking that images small enough to accompany text have to remain legible to be really useful.

Even ordinary emojis can be too cluttered for their size, sometimes. Custom ones take this to the 10th power.

@feditips Hang on. Folks tell me the toot thing was to be deprecated. Some folks are embarrassed with the kiddy connotations, apparently. My instance replaced the "toot" button with a "publish" button, although my mobile app still uses toot. What gives?