@ndrwy Just to confirm I've been transfered ownership. The site has been renewed and there's no plan for it to be cancelled now so folks are safe to keep their account as is if they wish though as with all things backing up follower / following relationships is always a sensible thing to do.

I've sent an email out to everyone registered on the site to let them know the site is back online and their accounts are fully operational and will be working behind the scenes to move the hosting to the same setup as my other two instances.

Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.

I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.

Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!

EDIT - Blog post with details: https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/

@julian So the plan will be to migrate everything onto the same servers we use for MastodonAppUK and Universeodon (Keeping it as it's own separate instance). as we made a fairly large investment back in September of last year into our own owned hardware with plenty of headroom for Growth.

There are some complexities around making this happen that come with taking on a new instance and taking on one that uses managed hosting right now but my intention is any changes that are made will be behind the scenes to reduce the hosting costs and align with how my existing instances run rather than anything that the community is going to notice or be impacted by.

For those that would like some more info, I've gone ahead and written up a blog post with a few bits that might be useful for the #MedMastodon community to know including a bit about who has taken over the site and what the future holds (TLDR it's not a lot that is interesting, just keeping the site stable and working nicely!) you can find the blog here - https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/

Just as a quick note as well for #MedMastodon folks - The instance is going to be staying up longer term, I have no intention to just shut the instance down after the current subscription expires at the end of the month.

The transfer ended up happening a bit quicker than I had expected (A great thing in this case) but it did mean I was mid way through cooking dinner and working on a customer project when everything started to progress so I haven't quite gotten around to writing something more detailed up in terms of the future of the site but do want to confirm the plan is for it to be sticking around long term now no matter what