You should be. HN buried Mastodon as a viable social media platform a year ago.

colordrops · on Sept 29, 2023

How did HN "bury" mastodon?

vsareto · on Sept 29, 2023

Mastodon is often really slow. The krebs link loaded after like two minutes with an error, then a soft refresh finally loaded it. That happens regularly with Mastodon links for me

riffic · on Sept 29, 2023

there isn't a single Mastodon server. It's a web application (like Wordpress which frequently gets hugged to death when linked here).

troyvit · on Sept 29, 2023

Right, so instead of:

> HN buried Mastodon as a viable social media platform a year ago.

It should be:

> HN buries Mastodon as a viable social media platform every time an HN user posts a moderately popular link to Mastadon.

I want to love Mastodon but until they figure some stuff out they're never going to be a viable platform to (for instance) explain to all those who need to know how one of the largest cloud providers is deeply compromised.