> Mastodon is not a single service, but open source software groups/individuals/organisations run
Yes, as I tried to specify by qualifying "the project, not the noun" but I was on my phone so linking to github.com/mastodon/mastodon was more trouble than I thought necessary. Evidently not
> So it's not really accurate to say Mastodon itself had issues with the huge influx of users, but rather some popular instances of Mastodon had issues.
Understood, and the rails server running on some person's droplet is one trending link away from becoming a "popular instance." I believe Kris Nova's situation fell into that category. I'm not saying the mastodon/mastodon should change their deployment model to require Jets, but if Jets is mostly compatible with Rails, and mastodon/mastodon could write their Rails in a way that allows either deployment model, that seems like a win
Yes, as I tried to specify by qualifying "the project, not the noun" but I was on my phone so linking to github.com/mastodon/mastodon was more trouble than I thought necessary. Evidently not
> So it's not really accurate to say Mastodon itself had issues with the huge influx of users, but rather some popular instances of Mastodon had issues.
Understood, and the rails server running on some person's droplet is one trending link away from becoming a "popular instance." I believe Kris Nova's situation fell into that category. I'm not saying the mastodon/mastodon should change their deployment model to require Jets, but if Jets is mostly compatible with Rails, and mastodon/mastodon could write their Rails in a way that allows either deployment model, that seems like a win