Has the number of new Mastodon users dropped off or leveled out? If so, it is because Mastodon servers are over capacity and not taking new sign ups or because we're reaching the end of the new user spike? Is the spike still happening but I'm just not seeing it?
@evacide It could be because people prematurely fled here from Twitter following a small but frenzied crowd.
Love or hate the idea of Elon firing half the staff, it's very possible that it only takes half the staff to actually run Twitter. I know in my workplace, we could fire a tonne of people and still function very well, same with yours, possibly.
Love or hate the nutty tweets Elon tweets or says, he truly is a crazy person, but that's not necessarily bad.
@securmnt @evacide of course it takes less than half. Not all those people were there to keep the site running. Most devs are going to be on product teams, carefully rolling out new features.
With a skeleton crew of people, you can keep the lights on, but doing any sort of complex new features dev is going to be fraught and there's going to be a lot of firefighting.
