Joindiaspora.com will be shutting down 1 March 2022.
The instance is my own primary Diaspora instance
Announcement:
https://git.feneas.org/feneas/association/-/raw/master/comms/dissolving-the-association-2022-01-09.txt
There's a Diaspora discussion here: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/f605e81053c3013ae6b9002590d8e506
I've posted an announcement to ArchiveTeam's subreddit here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/s05wk0/federated_networks_association_ry_dissolving/?
And there's an HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29868837
I'll be making my own plans shortly. Among those is assessing whether or not I want to remain on Diaspora* itself ... it's been useful to date, though slow development and dissatisfaction with existing features have been a concern. I may be approaching podmins for hosting.
I would like to note that federated and self-hosted services do run on the backs of volunteers, and that resources and interest are finite. I've tried to do what I could to support these, though I've long felt my contributions were insufficient. Reach out to your own podmins and see what support they could use. And recognise that even coordinating love and support is itself a task requiring overhead.
That said, I have ongoing presences at:
- Mastodon on toot.cat: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius (also https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius and https://mastodon.social/@dredmorbius)
- Hacker news as dredmorbius. Not exactly social media, but not exactly not, either. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dredmorbius
- Email: dredmorbius <at> protonmail <dot> com
- Reddit, though I'm far less active than previously: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius (subreddit) and https://old.reddit.com/u/dredmorbius (account).
- Ello, for what it's worth: https://ello.co/dredmorbius
The GitLab lair will eventually be activated, I promise. https://gitlab.com/dredmorbius/lair-of-the-id.git
I'll probably try to wind down much further activity here soon. Hopefully I can continue at a new location.
I'll also be attemtping to archive as much of my own older content as possible at the Internet Archive.
If you're on JoinDiaspora, request an archive of your content NOW
This is under your Profile -> Settings -> Request Profile Data
(I anticipate high demand for this service, if not now, then soon.)
