🚨 Just a heads-up: there's only 1 month left until gainer.cloud shuts down on August 1st, 2025.

Thanks to everyone who joined and made the instance what it was. It's been a ride, but all things come to an end. Make sure to back up your data and migrate if you haven’t already.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. 💬

#Mastodon #Fediverse #InstanceShutdown #GainerCloud

Hey #Fediverse!

Here's a personal announcement:
I plan to shut down my instance this summer.
I'm trying to shrink the number of different services I am using, to reduce VM and storage costs (reducing costs even more would imply downsizing my servers, which would degrade even more performance of my services).

And I figured that I didn't have very interesting stuff to share lately, everyone on here is already doing a great job in providing the Fediverse with awesome content ^_^.

So I think that, for now, I'm going to "archive" this account and use @clemv (a third-party-hosted Mitra instance) as my main account from now on.

And ultimately the instance will be taken down during the summer.

I may take some time to redirect every link/profile and resub everything there, so don't worry if I'm not following you from the "new" account yet, I'll do so before I take down my instance :)

See you!

#AccountMigration #Migration #InstanceShutdown

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but Aethy.com is temporarily down because their storage operators “dropped the ball” (according to them) and they “chose to shut it down rather than the site operating in a degraded state.”
If you have a problem with my wording, it’s not mine—it’s the instance owners.

#aethynews #aethy #aethyDOTcom #instance #instanceshutdown #shutdown #aethywillbeback

GOING MASTO'DOWN'

For evidence, of how "#trickleDown" does not work, just look at this instance. It has been giving a voice to activists for years and yet is not able to sustain itself at a mere $40 per month.

Our long-running activism instance (UK-based but they move through Europe by boat) is having to shut down on 8 October due to no funds.

#goingOffline #instanceShutdown @witchescauldron #trickleDownTheory #mastoDown #goingMastoDown

@carlschwan

Hi Carl, we are including @tokodon into the above, in case that is more frequently checked. We don't know how much longer we will be able to help Tokodon because we regret to inform that our long-running activism instance (UK-based but they move through Europe by boat) is having to shut down on 8 October due to no funds.

We have just found another bug that goes against the way fediverse and mastodon works, see next toot.

#goingOffline #instanceShutdown