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To help make the move as smooth as possible, we'll keep the site up for a while longer, and there's a list of recommended instances in the attached doc. If you're interested in trying to set up your own instance, we highly recommend trying it out if you have the funds and a bit of coding experience! You're always welcome to ask one of us for help setting up, and Berries' rules, themes and blocklist are open source (linked in the doc as well).

We are sad to announce that in the next week or so, Berries will be closing down. Although this lines up with a lot of people moving, it's actually a decision we've been discussing internally for a while now, and one that we're making for our own mental health and time management.
We want to be clear that it's not because of/in response to recent drama; if anything, the impetus for this conversation was Gen's injury, and it led to all of us realizing that we just weren't in a place to run the site anymore, especially since others of us are also struggling with mental and physical health issues right now.
We collaborated on a doc with everyone's statements here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DOIiLAc_h6NjwVZEaMsaanlOzKFOqS3TRXW0ywLsPnE/edit?usp=sharing