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Leah Oswald
Personal blog · leah.is/postswebculture
Leah Oswald writes Leahs Gedanken, a personal blog at leah.is about web and culture. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Scaling the Mastodon”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on scaling Mastodon servers, which covers how chaos.social runs on four dedicated servers. Commenters cite it when discussing that instance's request load.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Die Website von Leah Oswald. Gedanken, Meinungen und was mir sonst so durch den Kopf geht.
Most-linked posts?
- Scaling the Mastodon4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-02
What Hacker News says?
chaos.social is run on four dedicated servers https://leah.is/posts/scaling-the-mastodon/
Comment linking /posts/scaling-the-mastodon/
on “So this guy is now S3. All of S3”Submitted Scaling the Mastodon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot really: h https://leah.is/posts/scaling-the-mastodon/ They just got 6 times the normal requests: https://chaos.social/@ordnung/110312089838674624
Comment linking /posts/scaling-the-mastodon/
on “So this guy is now S3. All of S3”Submitted Servers don't like it hot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling the Mastodon as a story · 2 points
HN discussion