we were (mostly) hugely overprovisioned and had just done a lot of quality engineering work to be able to withstand a 10x traffic bump. The underlying protocol @atproto.com is basically an open version of how high-scale systems work at other big sites
The team developing this site is smart, hard-working, and quite friendly. We do all wish some features weren't taking so long to implement, but it will be worth it.
The old President Bush joke. Big incident in the rainforest. Many Brazilians dead. "How many millions in a Brazillion?" he asks.
"How could there ever be a dafter president?" we all thought at the time. They found a way.
reminded of my favorite brazilian joke today
president bush is informed that a us carrier has accidentally killed two brazilian navymen
there's a long silence, and bush looks pained, before finally asking
how many is a brazilian?
Expect the number to rise as Twitter is taken down in Brazil due to Supreme Court orders. Hopefully Bluesky's server can handle the amount of incoming members.