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   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 23:59:37 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   Does anyone know what's going on with pawoo.net? Seems like a DNS blackout.

   https://dnschecker.org/#A/pawoo.net

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 02:06:08 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     As far as I can tell, the DNS zone got wiped sometime around 03:30 UTC on 4 Aug 2026. The instance is on IFTAS blocklists for CSAM; it's also one of the biggest servers on the Fediverse.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 02:10:45 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     mastodon.cloud, pawoo.net and mstdn.jp are run by SujiTech.

     https://masknetwork.medium.com/why-we-are-backing-mastodon-and-the-future-of-decentralized-social-dde0aab4ec46

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 02:12:07 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     mastodon.cloud is shutting down in a few days:

     https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/116880479865941905

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 02:15:07 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     I don't see anything happening with mstdn.jp though.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 04:54:36 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Rob Ricci
     • Minoru

     @ricci @minoru they're blocked a lot, and I don't see them in fedidb either.

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 04:54:37 JST Rob Ricci

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     • Minoru

     @evan Kind of beside the point of maybe of interest - I looked to see when my nodeinfo crawls started failing on pawoo ... and I have never crawled any of the three instances in these posts! They don't appear in the https://nodes.fediverse.party/ list, which is what I use for my instance list. The machine that @minoru runs to build that list is located in Russia - so maybe they are blocked in Russia?

     A few weeks ago I started running my own copy of Minoru's crawler, I'll see how much my vantage point in the USA changes the list.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 04:54:57 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • Rob Ricci
     • Minoru

     @ricci @minoru are you sure you see pawoo? dnschecker sees it down worldwide (except Beijing for some reason):

     https://dnschecker.org/#A/pawoo.net