PugJesusHurts every time.
mindbleach‘Hey could you maybe transfer this important established server to anyone else?’
‘Nope! Fuck yourselves! <3’
There may be legal questions, but also, they mentioned that the price of keeping it running was a factor.
The thing about transferring ownership is that price stops being your problem.
I mean there may be legal questions about transferring ownership.
As for price, the question then arises - who is offering to pay for it?
Maybe if you reach out to the admin, they’d be happy to transfer it to you. I don’t know how these things work or the admin’s opinions. But the admin saying “It’s been good guys, but it’s too expensive and not what I hoped for, so I’ll keep it up for this last lease period and then let it go” is hardly a declaration of “Go fuck yourselves, I’m just burning everything down”
There’s gonna be more Lemmy servers.
A new one will be worse-off than taking over an existing one, as a rule.
For all the same reasons that having a new NSFW-heavy server doesn’t make up for LemmyNSFW disappearing and taking years of content with it.
And “fuck yourselves” is explicitly how several websites I care about have disappeared.
I’m not disputing that it’s desirable to acquire the server and perpetuate it over starting a new one, my point is only that the admin no longer being able to hold up the burden is hardly an act of spite.
And “fuck yourselves” is explicitly how several websites I care about have disappeared.
Okay, but as I said, that’s hardly the tone or implication here.