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   vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 15:00:44 JST vga256

   Due to technical limitations with mastodon's architecture - which does not support domain name changes or data migration - dialup.cafe will be closing permanently in one month.

   Dialup.cafe instance users: please see the server announcement and get thine affairs in order. 💀

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     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ (captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 15:00:40 JST ☠ Captain Arcee ☠

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     @vga256 check out the instance I'm on and see if it would be a fit for you. We are always welcoming of new members and I think you'd be a great fit for retro-gaiden

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     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ (captainarcee@retro-gaiden.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 15:04:43 JST ☠ Captain Arcee ☠

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     @vga256 nevertheless, please let us know where you end up at cause I'd hate to miss project updates from ya. I got the RSS feed, but Mastodon is just so much more convenient

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     hoolis (hoolis@dialup.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 15:22:24 JST hoolis

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     @vga256 I expect we will, thank you for being a great host.

     Ugh, I forgot how bad it looked in Netscape. Here's what it looked like in Virtus before I abandoned it 🙂

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     vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 15:22:25 JST vga256

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     • hoolis

     @hoolis hoping everyone finds good new homes. thanks for being along for the trip!

     ☠ Captain Arcee ☠ repeated this.
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     hoolis (hoolis@dialup.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 02-Oct-2025 15:22:26 JST hoolis

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     @vga256 A sad day, when the coolest cyber cafe's lights dim. Thank you for your service and inspiration.

     I never could get the VRML cafe to work quite right, but if you have Netscape 3 or 4 handy, you can get a glimpse of an alternate timeline... http://http-hoolis-net.hjpmusic.com/vr.html

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     vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 02:29:38 JST vga256

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     in case anyone is curious about the underlying cause of it being impossible to migrate a mastodon server from one domain to another, this limitation is due to the activitypub protocol itself, which (simplifying for brevity) uses the equivalent of absolute/hardcoded URLs for posts

     @silverpill wrote this fediverse enhancement proposal that would allow for relative domain names. given that it was written a year ago, and with the molasses-like development the protocol has, i sadly suspect it's unlikely to be integrated any time soon.

     more here:
     https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/e3e9/fep-e3e9.md

     #mastoAdmin #fediverse #activityPub

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 02:29:38 JST silverpill

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     @vga256 FEP-e3e9 (Actor-Relative URLs) is not my FEP.

     I wrote FEP-ef61 (Portable objects):

     https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md

     It currently has 3 independent implementations.