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So it’s been about eight months since Mastodon.lol went down and… If you go visit the place, it’s still up. It still has that stupid gif on it. Nathan has willingly kept the site up… Just for that one gif? I’m sure it’s probably not a bandwidth hog, but that is quite a level of petty.

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@yassie_j just checked, yep there's a GIF right there front and center neocat_woozy

I wonder how much it costs to maintain that one GIF

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@yassie_j you could technically host such a thing on netlify which costs you nothing except the domain, soooo

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@koyu interesting, makes it even more petty in that case lol

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@yassie_j what happened there? Seems like Nathan didnt like ppl there
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@daviddd longgggg story. Basically he had a meltdown, freaked out, blamed it on his users, and then shut the whole place.

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@daviddd @yassie_j
I wrote a fairly in depth article on what happened there!
TLDR Nathan overextended himself and then couldn't handle the pressure, blew up at his users/ a lot of people from other servers, and called off the whole thing, due to Wizard Game discourse.
https://lucretia-rage.online/articles/article_fs_in_chat_for_mastodon_dot_lol.html
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@yassie_j I mean it makes sense for Nathan to hold on to the domain for security reasons but besides that

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@yassie_j I mean, the domain probably hasn't expired yet so he might as well
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@yassie_j if he prepaid for the domain and hosting it probably costs nothing to let that gif sit there until his contract expires.
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harry potter
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@lucretia @yassie_j oh yea, that harry potter game yeah, never played it and never will lol
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