Mastodon Instance Operators Report on the Impact of the #TwitterMigration

Mastodon Instance Operators Report on the Impact of the #TwitterMigration

A number of Mastodon operators have started to report the impact of the #TwitterMigration on their instances.
I started gathering these because I was curious about what it takes to run a public or semi-public Mastodon instance.
These reports are full of those kinds of details, but they also describe evolutions of policy and operations that are just as interesting.
If you see other reports (or have posted a report of your own Mastodon instance), please tag me at
@dltj@code4lib.social
and I’ll add it to this list.
Note!
There is now a
branch and pull request
on GitHub where you can suggest changes to this list and/or subscribe to notifications for updates.
Updates to the page
are also available via
RSS-Bridge
. This didn‘t work as I expected it to when the commits got to GitHub. (The pull request was automatically closed.) Will need to rethink this.
sfba.social (San Francisco Bay Area)
This report covers the San Francisco Bay regional Mastodon instance sfba.social, including general statistics, financial details including income (donations) and expenses (hosting costs), moderation efforts, and changes made and considered. It has been wonderful to welcome all of our new friends and neighbors. We have expanded our server capacity and refined our moderation process, including a new version of the code of conduct and updated the server rules to match. This has helped to improve expectations and free our users to be nice and have fun!
—
Transparency Report (November 2022)
, SFBA Community Hub, 2-Dec-2022
Includes sections for:
Statistics for activity growth
Financials/fundraising
Governance changes (new moderators, code of conduct revisions, )
Future plans
mindly.social
Since April of this year I‘ve been running my own Mastodon server and 3 days ago we hit 100 users which was a huge milestone for my tiny little server… and then all of a sudden something happened, the other Mastodon servers started to get full and new users were looking for homes. Less than 72 hours after being excited for hitting 100 users we hit 10,000 users.
—
Running a Mastodon server – Part 1?
, KuJoe‘s blog, 29-Nov-2022
Includes sections for:
Statistics for activity growth
Process for managing growth (technical)
chaos.social
The past month has changed the Fediverse, and, by extension, our instance. We‘ve continued as normal (apart from limiting sign-ups) to give ourselves time to figure out which changes were only temporary, what seems to be changed for good, and how to react. A month seems ample time, and here we are with a set of changes in how chaos.social will work in the future.
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Rule changes, closed sign-ups, and more
, chaos.social blog, 29-Nov-2022
Includes sections for:
Statistics for activity growth
Process for managing growth (new user moderation, instance rules)
I was going to write an article for a while now, but there was too much work to do with the latest influx. Together wi…