Welcome to Fedi Chronicles!
This page is dedicated to keeping track of relevant events in the fediverse, be it advances in technology, notable Instances being born or going down, or other happenings that are bound to catch the attention of many people at least for a couple of hours!
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April 2024
The car-hammer-explosion-tumblr Incident
April 2024
After a controversial moderation decision to remove a User who posted they wished the CEO of the Social Media Platform tumblr "die[d] a forever death involving a car covered in hammers that explodes more than a few times and hammers go flying everywhere", a post by many to be understood to be satirical, and a badly received statement of the CEO, many users of the platform migrated to the fediverse. -
April 2024
0w0.is is taken offline
April 2024
After a final announcement post, the final post of the instance, 0w0.is is taken offline. -
April 2024
gender.systems is taken offline
April 2024
Due to a lack of funding, gender.systems is taken offline. -
March 2024
Threads AP Integration goes into beta
March 2024
Threads rolls out a beta program for users in certain countries over the Age of 18 which allows them to federate their posts with other fediverse instances using the Activity Pub protocol. -
February 2024
cooltrans.men is founded
February 2024
A new instance, aimed at transmasculine people, is going online. -
February 2024
queer.af seized by Taliban
February 2024
The Mastodon instance queer.af disappeared after the Taliban have shut down the Domain. Alongside it other .af domains were affected. The Administrators already set out to not renew the Domain on April that year but were taken by surprise. Many fedi instances added a manual DNS entry to their instances' servers to allow users to migrate their accounts. -
February 2024
toot.site is taken offline
February 2024
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January 2024
firefish.social is taken offline
January 2024
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January 2024
0w0.is will be shut down
January 2024
The Administrator of the fedi instance hosted on 0w0.is has announced that in three months time the instance will be shut down. -
December 2023
calckey.jp is taken offline
December 2023
The Instance had to be discontinued because the Owner, with their move away from Japan, stopped being qualified to hold a .jp Domain, as only individuals with a physical address in the Country are allowed to own one. -
August 2023
firefish.lgbt, musician.social, and outdoors.lgbt discontinued
August 2023
After complete data loss on the server running these instances, and many failed restoration attempts, the Administrator of the instances decided to discontinue running them. -
August 2023
snowdin.town is taken offline
August 2023
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May 2023
mastodon.lol is taken offline
May 2023
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May 2023
FBI seizes kolektiva.social server
May 2023
During a raid on the home of the Admin of kolektiva.social, the server running the Instance is seized by the FBI. The data on it was not encrypted, so this event sparked a debate about data security on fediverse software. -
April 2023
Wikipedia joins the fediverse
April 2023
The Free Online Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, joins the fediverse at @wikipedia@wikis.world. It is used as a notable example for the Mastodon verified links feature. -
February 2023
wafrn joins fediverse
February 2023
The tumblr inspired platform wafrn integrates the AP protocol and joins the fediverse. -
December 2020
niu.moe is shut down
December 2020
As the instance has become too big and unmaintainable for the Admin, nui.moe is shut down. -
April 2017
tech.lgbt is founded
April 2017
A new instance, aimed at queer people working in technology, is going online. -
April 2017
niu.moe is founded
April 2017