We are looking for partners understand the user to take over .cloud services and focus more on market we understand better. If you’re interested in taking over please email Suji.yan @ sujitech.com
Many thanks.
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@shlee @Sujiyan You seem like the ideal steward.
Mr. Suji Yan: Hello!
Pixelfed, Loops, https://fedidb.com and https://fediverse.info founder here, I think you should hand this over to @shlee, who would be best suited to maintain this!
@Sujiyan @mellifluousbox @haubles Instance closures seem to be very common. Should Mastodon GmbH consider offering a service to take over or host instances that are losing their maintainers?
Of course, full data portability would make closures less disruptive. But the persistence of posts themselves is also important: old posts help people navigate, search, and filter the enormous volume of information on the internet. When an instance disappears, that public record can disappear with it.
@Sujiyan @quattrocchi It's a good idea but I think short-term we don't have the resources to take over a community-run server, also because of the additional cost of hosting and moderation @haubles
@mellifluousbox @Sujiyan @haubles In case the earlier point wasn’t clear: user retention is the key to solving both funding and development challenges.
The more people commit to Mastodon as a long-term platform, the more resources, attention, and energy become available to address unresolved problems. Retention and network effects should be treated as the priority.
@mellifluousbox @Sujiyan @haubles The broader concern is that mature instances hold accumulated network capital: posts, relationships, reputation, and years of human filtering.
When an instance disappears, Mastodon loses compounding network effects that are very hard to rebuild.
Even if Mastodon cannot directly host and moderate these communities, a continuity program based on partnerships, managed hosting, or successor operators could preserve that value.
