For the #MedMastodon community -

I'm sending out an e-mail now, unfortunately despite repeated attempts since the 5th Jan of this year we've been unable to get control of the domain from the original founder of the site.

With that in mind and to ensure the site does not just fall off the internet without warning in the future, we're announcing the closure of med-mastodon.com and are asking all active and registered users to migrate to a new server as soon as it is practical to do so.

We have a new GoToSocial server setup to allow for imports of historic posts as well as our existing Mastodon servers that folks are more than welcome to join (Details on the e-mail).

We will keep the med-mastodon site running throughout March as a minimum and hopefully everyone will have migrated by this time but we will keep a close eye and if needed can renew the site for an additional month to facilitate migrations.

Sorry for the rubbish news, there is not a whole lot more we can do :(

@wild1145 For peace of mind of everyone else, you do control the other domains?

@beer_mat_movies Yes, med-mastodon.com I never controlled, I offered to take it over when the original founder turned it off without warning. It is because I don't control the domain that I'm not happy keeping the site online.

All the other sites I run I have full control and full ownership of the domains.

@wild1145 While bad news for those affected, good news for the rest of us knowing you're in control dude :)