Many, many people have asked about error messages when using mastodon.social.

Mastodon.social is far too large. Its massive size causes errors, and threatens the long term safety of the whole Fediverse.

I strongly encourage people on mastodon.social to move their account to another server.

You can find reliable servers on the official site at joinmastodon.org/servers or my own recommended list at fedi.garden

Here's a step-by-step guide for moving: fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma

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David O'Brien

OK, I get that; but my interests are very broad:

• web design/development
• tech
• politics
• science
• art
• photography
• news/current affairs

Which is why I opted for a 'generalist' server.

@feditips

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slyborg

@feditips > threatens the long term safety of the whole Fediverse

Please stop with this nonsense.

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BoneHouseWasps 🔶

@feditips Urrggh. I know I've got to do this at some point but it smacks of admin.

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Adam Beer

@feditips Oh wow. Semi-common errors and 15-20% of all Mastodon users? I had no idea things were that bad!

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SpaceLifeForm

@feditips

This is the correct approach. Move.

The Sidekiq queues can build up quickly on a large instance, and they can get stuck.

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Dianora

@feditips One of the reasons I am on a local city instance now. Very good point. When I started (May 2017) we had little choice.

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Kent Borg

@feditips I feel quite fortunate I happened upon a good instance way back when.

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རྣམ་དག་སྟོན་པ :verified:

@feditips Смерть цьому кацапському порталу нечисті!

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CatsSimsBooks

@feditips So basically, and considering that everything federated with has to be mirrored locally instead of just retrieved, you didn't design your facebook and twitter killer social network with scalability in mind?

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Simon Lucy

@feditips

By the way, suggesting it's bad to be on any particular server isn't the virtue you think it is.

So, blocked you are.

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Cai

@feditips @cstross Moving servers means losing my multi-year post history. Until Mastodon implements actual account migration, I’m pretty locked in to my 2017 choices.

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Robert von Burg :vegan: :tux:

@feditips my server is open for business =)) mstdn.gsi.li A Swiss based server, nothing fancy.

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