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How to keep the servers running when your Mastodon goes viral

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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How to Maintain a Server in a Distributed System

Mastodon is an open source distributed system. It's similar to Zora or discord, where you can have a lot of instances. There isn't like a server that you need to go keep online and you know, roll out kernel updates in mastodon. Benjamin: Who is responsible for maintaining this? We're trying to take our opportunity of doing open source operations seriously.

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