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I have decided to discontinue this instance. Because ...

1) I have been defederated by several large fediverse instances; no reasons were given; there is no way to investigate into it without the active support of those who run those sites. Resolving issues with a single-user instance is - obviously - unlikely to be among their priorities. There may be incompatibilities between the software used by my site and those who don't federate with me. I don't have the knowledge or energy to fix this side of things.

As a result of this, I am no longer able to interact with people I like. This is the primary reason for shutting down the instance.

2) I have realized that I enjoy going through my past interactions, posts and threads. I sometimes like to revive old topics. #Epicyon is not designed with that kind of use in mind. I miss being able to search. As I said on Mastodon, (https://mastodon.social/@lohang/110209507993705568 ) I am looking for an alternative that has better support for text search. Depending on the solution I find, I might start a new, single-user instance in the coming weeks/months. I am not very motivated because of the problem 1) described above.

3) My older DMs have disappeared without a trace. I don't know what happened there. I assume this is how #Epicyon is designed. It functions like something similar to IRC, without logs. DMs are not a preferred channel, but several friends I follow here are heavy users of DMs. I am now in an awkward situation with all the direct messages at my end are gone.

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