Hey there everyone!
It's been a nice run, but all good things come to an end as they say.
This nice thing comes to an end on Jul 2nd, 2026 which is when the domain expires and I've decided to not renew it.
It's been a nice run and I'm grateful to all the active users of our small Fediverse home!
click here if you're interested in the reason
As for the reason for this decision, it's because Lemmy and the Threadiverse in general didn't turn out into what I envisioned it would be.
For a hot minute it was honestly great but eventually all that remained was tankies propaganda and depressing news. And probably a few non-political communities that sadly don't really offset it for me.
I was pondering on keeping it running even if I don't really use it that much anymore, but then Hetzner announced a significant price change (and you can bet that Lemmy is an unoptimized resource hog) which is not the reason on its own, but the proverbial last straw.
So yeah, that's it I guess. I promised that if the instance ever goes down, I'll let everyone know with enough time and I believe I managed to do it.
I'll maintain the instance until it expires and I'll keep on moderating it of course but it's probably a good time to start looking for a new Threadiverse home.
Yet again, thank you very much to everyone who has been part of this instance! And to many of the friendly admins of other instances!
Sad but true. Matches everything I've seen and complained about over the last ~3 years. It looked so promising at first and then....turned into everything you just said. Lol, we should compare block/ban lists sometime - there's probably a LOT of overlap. Are you at doomprepper.com by chance?
Honestly, the Fediverse needs a schism if it's going to survive beyond being a haven for people that are too toxic to be platformed anywhere else. Not so much a split based on ideology but on pushing the extremist, antisocial, violent, troll people to the fringe instances so the sane people might actually stick around.
I thought we might be seeing the first steps of that with LW taking a stand against
.nexus, but they've since re-fedded and I'm not at all confident they're going to cut off dbzer0 and nexus which are two of the worst widely federated instances for platforming violent crazies (grad and hexbear are worse but they're pretty widely blocked, and.mlis sadly too big for most instances to cut off).It's totally possible to block and ban and defederate enough to make this a nice place, but it's a LOT of never-ending, thankless work as I'm sure you've noticed. The problem is few admins want to actually do that (and some are part of the problem), so the default experience for someone who isn't a crazy, violent antisocial extremist nutjob (i.e. most people) makes them want to nope out immediately.