Hey out there ppl.
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Hey out there ppl. We don't have any technical or quasi-legal reason to do anything about this, but it's been heard "out there" that the host med-mastodon.com shut down very abruptly and cut a good number of medical, scientific and academic professionals off their fediverse home very abruptly.
Check your followers/following to see if you had connections there, or if you know people, see if you can reach out and either help them find or help them boost their new coordinates.
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Hey out there ppl. We don't have any technical or quasi-legal reason to do anything about this, but it's been heard "out there" that the host med-mastodon.com shut down very abruptly and cut a good number of medical, scientific and academic professionals off their fediverse home very abruptly.
Check your followers/following to see if you had connections there, or if you know people, see if you can reach out and either help them find or help them boost their new coordinates.
One of the reasons for the Mastodon Covenant (requirement(s) for your instance to be listed at join-mastodon.org) having the "3 months notice before shutdown" requirement is so we don't have users cut off from their social network in this way.
Users whose instance pulls the plug abruptly have no opportunity to move their profile and history elsewhere so they end up starting at square one on a new host with no follows/followers.
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One of the reasons for the Mastodon Covenant (requirement(s) for your instance to be listed at join-mastodon.org) having the "3 months notice before shutdown" requirement is so we don't have users cut off from their social network in this way.
Users whose instance pulls the plug abruptly have no opportunity to move their profile and history elsewhere so they end up starting at square one on a new host with no follows/followers.
It's an unfortunately vulnerability in the federated model that while the whole network is *more* resilient, the individual nodes can be less so than a big corporate platform with funds and lawyers.
Unfortunately compliance with best practices is not enforceable here, and we really have no way to know what happened when a single-owner instance goes dark.
I encourage folks to not speculate or assume the worst of anyone - things happen - but do what you can to find any displaced users!
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It's an unfortunately vulnerability in the federated model that while the whole network is *more* resilient, the individual nodes can be less so than a big corporate platform with funds and lawyers.
Unfortunately compliance with best practices is not enforceable here, and we really have no way to know what happened when a single-owner instance goes dark.
I encourage folks to not speculate or assume the worst of anyone - things happen - but do what you can to find any displaced users!
@proprietor Totally agree and part of joinmastodon is that three months notice in your ToS.
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It's an unfortunately vulnerability in the federated model that while the whole network is *more* resilient, the individual nodes can be less so than a big corporate platform with funds and lawyers.
Unfortunately compliance with best practices is not enforceable here, and we really have no way to know what happened when a single-owner instance goes dark.
I encourage folks to not speculate or assume the worst of anyone - things happen - but do what you can to find any displaced users!
@proprietor confirm, as a former user, it shut down abruptly. Not a rumour.
if you go back through the hashtag and open the reddit link and view other toots, you can see people got in touch with the host and admin and he's refused offers from people to take over so people could migrate.
So I'm not assuming the worst but I am pretty pissed at him. -
@proprietor confirm, as a former user, it shut down abruptly. Not a rumour.
if you go back through the hashtag and open the reddit link and view other toots, you can see people got in touch with the host and admin and he's refused offers from people to take over so people could migrate.
So I'm not assuming the worst but I am pretty pissed at him.We might be able to help people find their follows again if we can find what other instances at some point cached their profiles. if the profiles were public, they should be able to display some follows/followers where those are also public.
Let me know if that feels useful, I can explore a bit more and maybe post a how-to.
