bummer. only just found out that Gup.pe groups no longer work & that the service is irredeemably broken, with the domain hijacked by someone pushing sign-up to fastmail.com. (Not a great look Fastmail.)

https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118

I found @ecologies@a.gup.pe pretty useful. The STS group too.

Has anyone tried out alternatives?

Would @ecologies@fedigroups.social be worthwhile? Or @ecologies@ovo.st?

#guppe #aguppe #fedigroups

bummer. only just found out that Gup.pe groups no longer work & that the service is irredeemably broken, with the domain hijacked by someone pushing sign-up to fastmail.com. (Not a great look Fastmail.)

https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118

I found @ecologies@a.gup.pe pretty useful. The STS group too.

Has anyone tried out alternatives?

Would @ecologies@fedigroups.social be worthwhile? Or @ecologies@ovo.st?

#guppe #aguppe #fedigroups

Hey Fediverse admins,

You might want to defederate gup.pe as it is no longer controlled by any kind of Fediverse service.

Apart from any theoretical risks of hijacked accounts, the amount of non-functional accounts it displays in search results will be misleading your server's members.

#Guppe#FediAdmin

Hey Fediverse admins,

You might want to defederate gup.pe as it is no longer controlled by any kind of Fediverse service.

Apart from any theoretical risks of hijacked accounts, the amount of non-functional accounts it displays in search results will be misleading your server's members.

#Guppe#FediAdmin

The other thing that the #Guppe incident showed us is that the #Fediverse seriously needs the #Nomadic protocol.

Let's say the Fediverse understands the protocol: just move to a new domain, inform all instances "this is the new domain, automatically re-subscribe please", done. Life goes on for regular people.

I am not saying it is that easy or that's how exactly it will work. But it could've been avoided. Right now, entire communities are gone, many who were relying on it are now disconnected. (Then again, I can argue that it's time to clean the membership since many accounts are also stagnant.)

So, when? #ActivityPub2 ?

#SocialWeb#OpenSocial#OpenSocialWeb

The other thing that the #Guppe incident showed us is that the #Fediverse seriously needs the #Nomadic protocol.

Let's say the Fediverse understands the protocol: just move to a new domain, inform all instances "this is the new domain, automatically re-subscribe please", done. Life goes on for regular people.

I am not saying it is that easy or that's how exactly it will work. But it could've been avoided. Right now, entire communities are gone, many who were relying on it are now disconnected. (Then again, I can argue that it's time to clean the membership since many accounts are also stagnant.)

So, when? #ActivityPub2 ?

#SocialWeb#OpenSocial#OpenSocialWeb

> ... a.gup.pe has been replaced with a WordPress installation full of SEO-targeted content about Mastodon.

You've got to be evil.

@vmstan could anything be done about this, after all it is open source. Something along the lines of @groups.vmst.io ? Sounds like the kind of challenge you would particularly enjoy.

https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118

#Guppe#GuppeGroups#Mastodon

Okay, some really bad news but also a suggestion for a way forward.

The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog 😞

However, there is another group provider called FediGroups, you can find out more on their site:

➡️ https://about.fedigroups.social/home

FediGroups has features that Guppe never had, including private groups.

(More info about #Guppe situation: https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118 )