Mastodon is often really slow. The krebs link loaded after like two minutes with an error, then a soft refresh finally loaded it. That happens regularly with Mastodon links for me
> HN buried Mastodon as a viable social media platform a year ago.
It should be:
> HN buries Mastodon as a viable social media platform every time an HN user posts a moderately popular link to Mastadon.
I want to love Mastodon but until they figure some stuff out they're never going to be a viable platform to (for instance) explain to all those who need to know how one of the largest cloud providers is deeply compromised.