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Announcing termination and archival of yiffit.net in 2025: we will be gone, but hopefully immortalized. - Pawb.Social
pawb.socialHello everyone, I’m sad to announce that I’ve come to the decision that it would
be best to archive this instance given the overhead in administration and
moderation that would be required to run it correctly. Please note that this
announcement ONLY impacts yiffit.net [http://yiffit.net] and that I have no
intention of terminating packmates.org [http://packmates.org] at all. There is
several reasons for this decision but most of them are based on my inability to
run the instance with the quality and care that I envisioned. Due to the nature
of Lemmy, the necessary moderation effort, media storage costs and admin effort
are considerably higher than for a Mastodon instance, for example. It’s not a
matter of donations, which many of you have generously offered over the lifespan
of the instance. What is meant by termination and archival? Some time after
January 3rd 2025, fulfilling my promise of giving at least 3 months notice, the
following will happen: - Yiffit will stop federating, all user sessions will be
revoked and logins will be disabled. - The site will effectively become a
read-only version, giving access only to local communities. NSFW communities
will be accessible publicly without need for an account although equipped with
an age disclaimer and anything else necessary to display adult content. - Remote
communities and posts will no longer be accessible, thus remote instances need
not worry that we would somehow cache any content which they would have wanted
deleted if federation had been enabled. - Local comments and posts from remote
users will be preserved. - There will be a way to receive and process personal
account / data deletion requests for yiffit.net [http://yiffit.net] users or
remote users who have submitted a comment or post. - I will attempt to find a
way to have the site officially archived in the Internet Archive or in any
similar way. - I will continue paying for the domain and hosting for an
indeterminate period of time, especially since the storage costs of local
content as opposed to remote content are negligible. Technically there is a
chance that we could come back at some point since I’ll make sure to save the
server’s federation authentication keys as well as all local content, but I
don’t want users to count on it. If we were to come back it would probably be in
a form other than a Lemmy instance or anything else that I currently am aware
exists out there. If you want to post a farewell message, please feel free to
send a comment below since everything will be archived and visible. Before
archiving the instance, around New Year’s Eve I’ll create the final farewell
message thread. Both this thread and the final farewell message thread will be
pinned in the home page when the site is archived. Thank you everyone for
everything. I’m incredibly humbled by all the interest and users we’ve received
over time and especially all the regular users who’ve kept posting constantly
despite the downturn in activity.
Just thought I would mention over here that Wander just announced the termination/archival of yiffit at the end of the year. I guess this will no longer be my backup account.
Sent an email, going to go by the name SultyYot from now on.