mastodon.online is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Server stats:

12K
active users

The reports are coming in from all over the Fediverse. While pixelfed.social is understandably working to accommodate the huge influx of new users, other Pixelfed instances are operating just like normal.

Users report these Pixelfed servers are running just fine:

gram.social/
pixey.org/
pixelfed.au/
pixelfed.art/
pixelfed.de/
pixel.infosec.exchange/

Don't worry about being on the main insrance, all Pixelfed servers talk to each other.

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@mastodonmigration I've been thinking about moving my account off of Pixelfed.social, had it there for over a year and @dansup has been doing a great job with everything, I have no complaints, I just can't decide if this would be a help to him or extra server load that he doesn't need right now.