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Emeritus Prof Christopher May and 1 other boosted

Hi!

Jennifer Hamilton here, formerly of med-mastodon.com. That server shut down suddenly. If you followed me before for my toots about #vaccines, #PublicHealth, #FamilyMedicine, my gripes about #ElectronicMedicalRecords #EMR, or even just a few #caturday pictures and chats about bicycling, I'm on mstdn.science now.

The old #MedMastodon went down suddenly in the last week of December 2025, and I don't have a list of my old followers. Please boost this so they can find me!

Blaise, a tuxedo cat with a white stripe down his nose, peers at the world from under a pile of bedclothes. He seems dubious about the whole "new day every day" thing.

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸

@maikel@vmst.io · last week

which implies no longer using localstorage only as place to save stuff and complicates things slightly because then I have to choose where exactly to store them.

(and I refuse to use firefox sync)

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸

@maikel@vmst.io replied · last week

the reason I'm thinking this a bit much is true account portability.

The problem with mastodon is that toots are tied to instances, not identities. this toot is tied to vmst.io not me. If toot ownership was proven by unique identifier of ME independent of instance, I should be able to control my own toots (and get notified about them) whatever the instance I'm tooting from, from any alt-account. If my handle was a just a convenience thing, but my identity was a truly unique identifier, then toot portability wouldn't even be necessary because if vmst.io died (or #medMastodon) my toots do still exist on the instances I federated...

clar fon boosted

Andrew Young 🇨🇦

@ndrwy@zeroes.ca · last week

med-mastodon.com - I contacted their host and offered to help cover costs for at least a month to allow people to migrate out.

The host replied to me 6 hours ago and said the instance admin:
- cancelled service
- is the only one who can restore
- has not agreed to offers

If you are impacted I highly recommend joining an instance listed on https://joinmastodon.org/servers as they are all bound to the server covenant ("give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down")

References:
- https://mstdn.plus/@LightFIAR/115804323025031878
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1pxtglg/my_instance_went_dark_is_there_any_possibility_of/

#MedMastodon

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Jennifer Hamilton MD PhD

@jeneralist@mstdn.science · last week

Hi!

The old #MedMastodon went down suddenly in the last week of December 2025, and I don't have a list of my old followers. Please boost this so they can find me!