I am continuing to work on scaling up mastodon.social and mastodon.online to handle the traffic and I've got @Nigma to help answer inqueries over on Twitter

Hi! mastodon.social is being slow right now, as far as I can tell because there's twice as many people using it at the same time as ever have; I'm working on making it go fast again, but in the meantime, do remember to invite people to joinmastodon.org instead of directly to mastodon.social. People don't have to be on the same server to follow you! Thanks!