Mastodawn

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 :(

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julian

Hi @[email protected], can we discuss having postcall.pub in the loop to serve as a landing zone for people leaving med-mastodon?

NodeBB Inc. (through me) is funding and maintaining this instance. It was built out specifically for the needs of that community when the site was first at risk of disconnection.

It result sucks that you are not able to get the domain sorted out. I empathize fully!

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Ryan Wild Mar 2

@julian 100%, we've provided some links in our e-mail to resources for migrating in general, there's nothing we can do obviously to push accounts out to other instances and all we've done is stood up fedimedi.com because we wanted to be able to let folks move their posts (And Mastodon doesn't currently have a way to make that work). I've pointed folks to our other instances because obviously I know they're sticking around for a while where we're maintaining them.

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julian Mar 2

@[email protected] that's completely fair. I can certainly understand the risk in suggesting an instance whose uptime and longevity you cannot guarantee.

FWIW I am a developer working on ActivityPub integration in NodeBB, a forum software. I am active in AP development circles and am committed to ensuring the properties I host stick around. The differentiator with us is that you can get more of that medicine-focused feel due to our focus on local categories/feeds, while maintaining the global fediverse connection. 🙂