Truly today sucks to be any kind of social media site admin. The Mastodon server I run, digipres.club, is struggling under the load.
Is there a reason everyone's using social media sites today? Truly, a mystery for the ages
The thing that keeps me going in stressful times like this is the incredible grace and patience of my users. If people got mad at me for the server struggling under load I’d find the whole volunteer sysadmin thing that much harder to deal with. So of course I’m passing those feelings on to any other site struggling in the same circumstances right now, like our very own beloved cohost dot org