Apologies if this is not appropriate. I wasn't sure where else to ask. Anyone know what happened to piefed.au. it's just disappeared.
Apologies if this is not appropriate. I wasn't sure where else to ask. Anyone know what happened to piefed.au. it's just disappeared.
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Linearity@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 282d
skribe@piefed.social · 4 pts · 282d
Thanks for that. Was that posted to a newsletter? I'm surprised I missed it if it was posted on piefed.au. IIRC, I joined there around September.
Linearity@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 281d
I’m assuming this email was sent to all addresses that people used to register to the server
skribe@piefed.social · 3 pts · 281d
Unfortunately, no. I didn't receive it. I just checked.
wjs018@piefed.social · 6 pts · 282d
The last time piefed.social received an activity from piefed.au is
2025-11-01 03:39:25.107725. I have no insight into their situation, but it might just be gone. Fediverse instances come and go sometimes.Jerry@feddit.online · 3 pts · 282d
How long has the site been down, as far as you know?
INeedMana@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 282d
Last snapshot in wayback machine is from last month
skribe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 282d
The weekend that piefed.social had its... issues (the first time), I checked piefed.au on the Friday to see if the problem was summit. It worked fine. When I returned on the Sunday, it was gone.
abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us · 2 pts · 273d
Hmm... it seems https://well-known.dev/sites/piefed.au last saw it around as of four days ago (saved for posterity at https://archive.ph/hjDuK ), but now I'm getting NXDOMAIN from chrome, so the registration just vanished.
Which is interesting because checking with GoDaddy WHOIS says, https://ca.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=piefed.au
Suggesting that the DNS registration expired earlier, 9 days ago.
Alas, GoDaddy only gives a name - Chris Price - and no other useful contact info like an email address or phone number that can be used to reach out.
Of course, well-known also only found out about piefed.au in late October, while there's evidence of it being around for much longer than that - e.g. https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571/17024992
However, when I look, I can't find evidence of federation happening more recently than one month ago - e.g. https://al.lemmy.hostux.net/l.hostux.net/u/Linearity@piefed.au
This makes me think that the admin planned to shut it down, and abandoned it approximately one month ago - but the hosting provider simply kept it around until now.