Mastodon performance issues on Friday, August 21, 2026

We have been experiencing issues with our Mastodon server is running slow, multiple minutes behind real-time over the last few days. We’re aware of the problem and working on it, with more to share after we resolve the issue.

Today on Friday August 21, we limited access to our public timelines to CoSocial members.
And are testing whether turning off relays will improve performance.

More details to follow.

The timeline is caught back up.

Many posts and interactions from the past 8 hours will continue to filter in while the backlog clears, but new posts are being displayed in realtime.

All caught up now. Thanks for your patience.

We’ve made some tweaks that will hopefully prevent a reoccurrence of this issue, and are continuing to monitor the situation and work with Fedihost to keep the system running smoothly.