SwitchingSocial.deSep 21, 2019
Hi Fediverse

it seems to me that switching.social closed down it's services. All social media accounts are deleted and the site is currently offline.

Unfortunately, I have no clue what happened, I'm as surprised as you are. I already contacted the French, Italian and Turkish version of the site.

In case someone knows anything about what happened or has backups of one/multiple pages of the website, I would be very happy to get in touch with you.

#SwitchingSocial #offline
Show thread NiklasSep 21, 2019
@swisode WTF?!SwitchingSocial was very active,even some days ago.I totally can't understand that they're gone now.It was such a important site to spread more knowledge about free and open services.Is it possible that they've been hacked and will bring everything back online soon?If not,we should copy the Web Archive pages and bring them to a own domain where updates are possible and continue SwitchingSocials work...
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@nipos I also considered this scenario, so I would wait a few days for a sign, message or something. I also downloaded all sites available on the Wayback machine ... as a backup of the backup.

I hope this situation will clear up soon and that the author is OK.
Sep 21, 2019 at 8:10amWeb
Show thread NiklasSep 21, 2019
@swisode I just read the answers to your German post and the fact that the account has been deleted just after answering a post makes me feel like it really wasn't intended by the author.Additionally I strongly believe that they had sent a shutdown notice publicly if this was really done on purpose.