What It’s Like to Run a Mastodon Server in the Musk Twitter Era

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https://mastodon.social/@jaz@toot.wales is a Welshman who has been living in the US since the 90s when he moved there to run a Dot Com startup. I reached out to King to discuss his experiences running Toot Wales, the challenges of scaling up, and what he wants from the Mastodon software going forward. Like many other Mastodon instances, Toot Wales experienced a rapid increase in usage after Elon Musk took over Twitter.

To run Toot Wales, King outsources most of the technical side of things — even though he’s capable of doing it himself.

Indeed, unlike the server I’m on, users on Toot Wales cannot even search their own posts.

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