Sounds like it sorts out the right kind of people? I’m not aware of anyone actually asking you to write an essay, no one would do that. 2 short answer questions does not an essay make.

It’ll drop a little, but to a significantly higher level than it was before.

👋 hello!

Might be a good time to spin up some more instances, to brace for the impact of the reddit migrants.

Nice. Medium is a blog-type site, right? Wish they mentioned if they were working on having the blogs be federated.

Alternatively, on my privacy-focused server, we only ask for full name and social security number. No passwords on any of our accounts either, just click your name from the drop-down list of our registered users! Easy and privacy focused! join us at privacy-mastodon.net

And thats a “problem” with decentralization: no good way to count a “total user count”.

Regardless of what the total number actually is, each source shows a very clear increase of ~2 million new accounts in the past month. Its great that so many more people are coming into the fediverse and getting sitautated here.

Regarding Mastodon being slow, on the ~50-100 instance I’m a member of, Mastodon is always very fast, just limited to my internet speed. I know that the larger instances can slow down, especially during peak load.