Announcing termination and archival of yiffit.net in 2025: we will be gone, but hopefully immortalized. - Pawb.Social
pawb.social
Hello 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.

  • Crashdoom (he/him)MAEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    If anyone has been struggling to get a verification email:

    • Please ensure you check your spam folder (We’ve been having some mail delivery issues with AWS)
    • Send an email to network@pawb.social using the same email you created your account with, and include your username, and we’ll manually approve it in the database

    We’re working to figure out what’s going on but it seems to be a mix of issues

  • Jimbo@yiffit.netEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Yiffit will also be immortalised in this year’s fediverse canvas, and for that I am glad :3

  • KoboldCoterieEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    That’s too bad to hear; it was nice having the divide between (mostly) SFW content over here and (mostly) NSFW content on yiffit. That said, you’re all of course welcome over here. :)

  • Awoos the Kinkwolf@yiffit.netEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Damn, that’s a shame, although not unexpected at this point. I’ll post some thoughts about it later over there, but I think I’d like to think forward.

    Assuming it’s okay with @crashdoom@pawb.social , I’ll probably recreate communities from Yiffit over here and post some of the backlog.

    Edit: Is email on pawb’s side working? Haven’t got an account creation email yet.

    • EthanolEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      look in your Spam folder! For some reason the account creation emails from pawb social always lands in spam folders!

        • l_b_iOPEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I don’t know that your mention generated a ping. I don’t remember any issues withe email from pawb. Obviously you could message crashdoom directly here or if you have a mastidon, there. There is also a contact email listed on the admin account @admin@pawb.social if all else fails.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Well… Fuck.

    Guess I’ll have to move to Pawb. Is there, like, a way to migrate all my posts and shit to a different instance/account or am I just gonna have to start from scratch?

    Edit: I guess I tried to make one before but never got the verification email. Not even in my spam folder. I have a saved login and such, but it says my email isn’t verified.

    • l_b_iOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      to the best of my knowledge, comment history, post history, saves, messages, … are not transferable to a new account. The only things that tools transfer is preferences, subscriptions, settings…

  • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I assume @kolanaki@yiffit.net already knows, but what’s gonna happen next? Is he going to migrate his account over here? If he just disappears I think I speak for a majority of Lemmings when I say the platform won’t be the same without him.

  • LordAmplifierEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    D’aww, that makes me sad. It was always nice to see a post from yiffit in my feed. But I understand Wander’s reason for this decision <3

  • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Sounds like we here at Pawb should get started on creating equivalents for all relevant yiffit.net communities, stat.

        • l_b_iOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Nope, and I replied to something just now from messages and it didn’t happen we’ll see what happens when I reply in the post itself. This one went through fine too.