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Hello friends,
I'm sad to announce that on May 31st I will be shutting down Displaced.social.
While I have been able to cut the operating costs by over 50% operating a secure, stable service at this scale is no longer financially feasible for me. Beyond finances there are also serious possible legal implications I face as being the sole owner of this service and I’m no longer able to take on those risks.
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--read part 1 first
There is already a way to export you data, including your media, follower and follow lists. Under Settings->Data export simply click request\download archive. This exports in a format that hundreds of other adult themed Mastodon instances support.
Patreon supporters. Your last payments will be put towards the final bills for keeping things running. On June 31 I will automatically cancel every subscription.
It's been fun and I hope to see you on another instance soon, Matt
I haven't been around to post many updates but we're still growing, just maybe not as fast as a few months ago - which is actually good.
Our database recently passed 2 million statuses from local and federated accounts.
I'll be rebuilding the Displaced.social frontend this coming weekend. Sorry for the recent outages. I've put a bandaid on the problem so if things go down again they should come back automatically after a few minutes.
For those who asked for a status page there is this available,
https://bit.ly/2IOdcYq
@2column not yet but it would be a good idea. I'd like a public status page of some type.
This outage was related to a service failure on the front-end instance. It went unnoticed by me.
To keep operating costs low the architecture is pretty simplistic, 1 web front end instance, 1 db as a service instance, 1 management instance that's off unless in use, and the storage service. Efficient and more robust than most Mastodon setups, but lots of points of failure.
Matt_in_Canada