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RIP botsin.space

botsin.space There's no easy way to put it, so here goes -- after a lot of consideration, I've made the hard (frankly, painful) decision to shut down botsin.space. TLDR: here's the plan: - Effective immediately I'm shutting down new account signups - I will switch the site into read-only mode sometime not long after December 15th.

Until recently, my thinking has been: "I'm cool with finding all sorts of weird tricks to keep the server going, and I'll worry about #3 and #4 someday in the future maybe lalalalala I can't hear you." But the recent Mastodon upgrade has caused a significant amount of performance degradation, and I think the only way to really solve it is going to be to throw a lot of money into hardware. I'm fortunate enough to have a career and life where I've been able to support botsin.space, but I can't do it forever, and as the expenses and challenges mount, I find myself thinking about things that I'd probably rather be doing with my time.

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