botsin.space postmortem

I switched botsin.space to read-only mode on December 16th. I essentially just prevented the creation of new toots -- you can still login, migrate your account, request an account archive, etc. Unsurprisingly, the load on the website has plummeted. In the next couple of weeks I hope to spend some time downsizing the instance, cleaning up some junk, etc, etc, to have a lean archive of the server…