I need more buyouts like this.

I’ve always equated mastodon with say twitter or Facebook but maybe it would be better to equate it with Netflix a private network shared by a household hosted by masto.host. Except you can then connect with your mates - and to other services growing outwards.

Taking a look at the new nodes graph on https://the-federation.info/mastodon it’s gone through the roof faster than a wave of Covid. I randomly came across a https://mastodon.social/web/@fediverseobserver@fediverse.one which posted about 9 new servers in the last hour (there’s a couple of lemmy servers there in the last day as well) not sure how the scraping works or how many are tests but interesting.