Apparently med-mastodon.com went offline with no warning sometime around Dec. 28. I'm hoping@bicmayand@gregggonsalvesre-establish a presence somewhere else.
@cbarbermd@med-mastodonis apparently now@cbarbermd, going from 1.6K followers to only 2.Not much info about what happened except for this Reddit post:
reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments…Edit: Apparently there is no hope for getting med-mastodon back online even for a short time to aid in migrations. That sucks.
zeroes.ca/@ndrwy/1158184205293…
As I find other folks who have migrated elsewhere I'll add replies to this post, at least for a bit.
sfba.social/users/jeridansky/s…
Apparently med-mastodon.com went offline with no warning sometime around Dec. 28. I'm hoping @bicmay and @gregggonsalves re-establish a presence somewhere else.@cbarbermd@med-mastodon is apparently now @cbarbermd, going from 1.6K followers to only 2.
Not much info about what happened except for this Reddit post:
reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments…Edit: Apparently there is no hope for getting med-mastodon back online even for a short time to aid in migrations. That sucks.
zeroes.ca/@ndrwy/1158184205293…Edit #2, January 5: There's some hope for getting med-mastodon back online! See mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145/11584… and
xcancel.com/nickmmark/status/2…Edit #3, January 5: Med-mastodon is now back online, so I'll stop updating this thread. Such good news! Many thanks to Ryan who made this happen.
mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145/11584…Ryan Wild (@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk)
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping le…Mastodon App UK
Unfortunately, until now, we haven't received a reply from the previous owner to be able to authorise that. But it's something that we might consider if they reply to the emails that were sent.
mastodon.social/users/mastohos…
@iftas Unfortunately, until now, we haven't received a reply from the previous owner to be able to authorise that. But it's something that we might consider if they reply to the emails that were sent.
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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!
mstdn.science/users/jeneralist…
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.
EDIT: I don't need boosts, but here's a cat picture.
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 offersIf you are impacted I highly recommend joining an instance listed on 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:
- mstdn.plus/@LightFIAR/11580432…
- reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments…
#MedMastodon
zeroes.ca/users/ndrwy/statuses…
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 offersIf you are impacted I highly recommend joining an instance listed on 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:
- mstdn.plus/@LightFIAR/11580432…
- reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments…
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⚠️Comunicazione di servizio: abbiamo sospeso l'istanza med-mastodon! Allarme rientrato
NB: due ore fa grazie a un'eccezionale intervento med-mastodon è tornata on line: quando aveva cessato di esistere e l'avevamo bloccata per evitare impersonificazioni. Ora è di nuovo sbloccata
Purtroppo il popolare server #MedMastodon dedicato ai medici e alla medicina, ha chiuso inaspettatamente alla fine del 2025, impedendo agli utenti di accedere ai propri dati ed evidenziando i rischi dei social media decentralizzati senza backup, poiché il suo amministratore ha cessato le operazioni, causando confusione e perdita di dati per molti professionisti sanitari che si erano iscritti come alternativa a Twitter.
Questo evento serva come monito:
su qualsiasi istanza di Mastodon vi troviate, salvate i vostri dati!
ATTENZIONE!
Per aiutare gli utenti di Med-mastodon che sono tornati nel Fediverso, abbiamo reato il gruppo Friendica @medmastodon
Se seguirete questo gruppo potrete:
- Seguirlo e menzionarlo nei vostri messaggi ed esso ricondividerà tutti i vostri post pubblici indirizzati a lui (vale solo per un messaggio iniziale e non per una risposta a un altro messaggio)
- Seguirlo soltanto per leggere tutti i messaggi dei colleghi medici che manderanno messaggi tramite esso
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we need to encourage people to do at signup time. "Does your employer have a server? Does your university have a server? Are you a member of the ACM, or SDF? Can you pay $6/month for a hosting service? Want to join a cooperative like social.coop? OK, if *none of those things* is true, here is a list of servers that provide open registration to the public for free, on a best-effort basis."
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I don't know either. It might be something we need to encourage people to do at signup time. "Does your employer have a server? Does your university have a server? Are you a member of the ACM, or SDF? Can you pay $6/month for a hosting service? Want to join a cooperative like social.coop? OK, if *none of those things* is true, here is a list of servers that provide open registration to the public for free, on a best-effort basis."
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This is an Activitypub group to help users of the MedMastodon instance find each other.
If you mention this group, everyone who follows it will see it!
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