@FediTips the same admin was responsible for mstdn.jp and pawoo.net, both of them also abandoned and running with outdated and unsupported versions.

(It's what I infer from https://mstdn.jp/@Sujiyan/109564291832002068)

@cadusilva @FediTips TIL those are all the same admin... and also this:

https://blocktribune.com/former-employee-sues-blockchain-firm-ceo-for-sexual-assault-wrongful-termination/

@mirabilos @cadusilva @lina I back up regularishly and If it goes down I'll probably actually start using my bluesky as something other than read-only with occasional replies.

Sites come, sites go.

(Realm of the Dragon. 596-4835. The sysop wrote his own C128 bbs software and I wrote my own C64 terminal program to talk to it.)

@mirabilos @cadusilva @lina If the site stays up, it stays up. If it goes down it goes down. If another pearl clutching homeowners association decides to shun it while it's still up, oh well.

(I've already gotten the "How dare I not have abandoned my wife and moved out of the USA yet." speech from more than one person, thanks.)

@landley @mirabilos @cadusilva FWIW pawoo got defederated by ~everyone (including my instance) after it became a CSAM hellhole (actual CSAM, not lolicon). That's why I'm worried about those owners...

Also .cloud is having a spam issue as we speak and being (hopefully temporarily) limited by other instances too.

@mirabilos @lina @cadusilva Oh hey, my instance has an "announcement" tab now, which says:

バージョンアップについて
平素より mstdn.jp をご利用いただき、誠にありがとうございます。
mstdn.jpではシステムのソースコードはオリジナル版から一部改修が入っていましたため、アップグレードの作業は遅れております。
現在、運営チームにてサーバーバージョン更新の実現可否を検討しております。
これから進捗については、またお知らせます。
今後ともmstdn.jp をよろしくお願い申し上げます。

Roughly "Thanks for using the site, we're behind on version updates because our local source code has lots of mods we'd need to port, we're looking at it and will keep you posted, thanks again."

@landley @mirabilos @cadusilva They say "considering whether an upgrade is possible or not"... that's... not a great sign...

Meanwhile mastodon.cloud seems to be down entirely?