Announcements

Hello all,

Some of our sister sites will be closing down June 1st, 2025.

Bye Utter.Online (Mastodon)

It has been decided that the Mastodon instance Utter.online will be shut down on June 1st, 2025, due to a lack of interest from the community. There are many Mastodon instances available for people to choose from. We could not create an Instance that stood out and encouraged growth. I'm okay with this because I, too, lack interest in micro-blogging. In the coming days, I will migrate some users to a new Mastodon Instance, such as @[email protected].

Bye Social.Photo (Pixelfed)

It has also been decided that the Pixelfed instance Social.photo will be shut down on June 1st, 2025. This instance has been growing in popularity slowly, and the decision to shut it down stems from frustrations with sustaining a Pixelfed service.

Is it because of money?

Closing these two services down also provides cost benefits from not having to renew domains and run the services. Mastodon and Pixelfed use a lot of storage because they have very active photography communities. Cost benefits were not a driving factor but were tipping points to make decisions. Neither the Utter.Online nor the Social.Photo communities donate to continue services.

What about "my" data?

I will not be giving any data to anyone. If you wish to have your data, you must export it before June 1st, 2025. All data and backups will be forever deleted on that date.

Continuing the services.

I can transfer the domains to the right person if they wish to continue the service. However, I will not be providing user data or databases. I can provide any key used for Instance identification; however, users will need to export their data and import once the transfer is complete.

Thanks a lot, jgrim