Update: It is online again.

Mastodon Online is down for an hour or two now. The status page has identified the error and the admins are working on getting it fixed. This sucks of course because this instance hosts my mastodon account. So I can't post or read my timeline.

Due to its decentralised nature, Mastodon and the wider fediverse are still functioning normally and all other servers and instances are talking to each other without being affected by this outage.

This is never the case with Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter or Bluesky. All these services are centralised (even Bluesky) and once a server is experiencing difficulties, the entire network becomes unreachable. Millions or billions of users lose the ability to communicate.

👉 Join the independent and open web, join Mastodon.