Long posts

"This instance will be closing down on 17th September. Mastodon has not achieved critical mass and the engagement I am getting does not justify the hosting fees. Please export your account if it is valuable to you, you can then import it to another instance. Likewise you can save your follows etc. from the admin panel.

Thank you for joining me in this experiment! I still think Mastodon is a better solution than ad-funded billionaires running mega social media platforms, but the learning curve of distributed instances and the issues with discoverability are just too much for general punters." - an old instance I used to frequent telling me what I already knew