Important Announcement
Added 2022-11-18 17:15:29 +0000 UTCI was faced with a difficult decision today.
In light of the twitter fallout and a mass exodus of new users being introduced to Mastodon and joining the fediverse for the first time, the server for baraag buckled at the influx of traffic. I thought I had more time to upgrade the server but I am unable to immediately address all this new activity to keep up with it.
To prevent the server from shutting down or otherwise becoming unresponsive, I have turned off federation with all outside instance communities. This means that all communication at baraag is now strictly between local users, no one from any other server can remotely interact with us. This frees up a tremendous amount of resources and buys me time to figure out the timeframe for when we can pull off the server upgrades necessary for me to enable federation again.
Since 2017, I never wanted baraag to become a siloed and closed off community. I fully embrace the idea of the fediverse and the different communities that can come together. But it is with a heavy heart that I isolate us down to a local timeline, at least for the time being until the end of this year. For artists that wish to join a still-federating instance that has a similar policy to baraag for what is acceptable content without needing to censor (like pawoo.net), I recommend aethy.com
Thank you everyone for your continued support. I will try to get the server back to federating as soon as possible.
- koi
