Baest will be shutting down on November 8th. Why? A few reasons. 1. This is getting expensive and time consuming to run. 2. God has other plans for me and trying to continue running all of this would hold me back. 3. I want to spend less time on the internet. 4. I'm a very different person and in a much different situation from when I started. One of the main reasons I started running a fedi instance was I had a bunch of free time because I couldn't work. I've had a great time and met lots of wonderful people. Honestly, if it weren't for fedi I'm not sure where my life would be but probably somewhere very different and not as good. I know I wouldn't be able to give Cornbread a home. I want to thank everyone for hanging in here with me all this time. I'm sorry I'm shutting it down. This isn't an easy decision to make and I do feel guilty about it. Don't worry, I'm not leaving fedi and I really hope this doesn't cause any Baest users to leave fedi. I just have more important things I need to focus my time and money on. I'm at least going to make it through the election, though. Thank you for letting me be a part of all of this for all of these years. I am extremely thankful.

I am open to transferring everything if someone else wants to take over hosting Baest but it's really not worth it.

Damn, now how will @Terry@bae.st give me daily news updates.

@j@bae.st Sad to hear this. I was getting started on this fediverse thing and it was a very great experience. A lot of nice people to talk with... And now, seeing it go... Wish you the best, j. It was nice being here and I really loved this experience. Can't be thankful enough for all your work

@j@bae.st Thank you for providing us hosting for our Fedi accounts for all this time. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this for us.

@Zucchini@bae.st this isn't goodbye at least

@j@bae.st does this have anything to do with what happened to the baraag guy? I can always blacklist loli and Shota from the bots and stop manually posting that stuff.

@j@bae.st FUCK well can't do anything about it sadly. i need to see how to migrate my account

@rlier23@bae.st you might not have to. @p@fsebugoutzone.org is going to migrate Baest to revolver making it fully decentralized.

@j@bae.st Which alphabet agency paid you off?

@lamp@mastodon.cloud @j@bae.st A bunch of people from a chan site had baraag deplatformed, also the owner was doxxed and supposedly reported to Texas law enforcement (though given that the law against obscene loli is rarely enforced in the US we don't know if anything will come of it).

@redneonglow@bae.st @lamp@mastodon.cloud @j@bae.st said chan site is also notorious for being full of underage kids who want to fight people online while consuming the edgiest shit possible.

@Pawlicker@bae.st @j@bae.st @lamp@mastodon.cloud Most of the "anime police"/"lolitary" type groups that do shit like this are usually underage kids playing Superman.

@j@bae.st bro

@j@bae.st even if Bae.st isn’t going away, let me know if anyons would like an invite to the Shota.house A small instance that federates with so many others, we like big boobs! - oh uh - artistic freedom & freeze peach but generally keep things chill with alot of customization for curating your experiences. It’s run by a couple really cool people.

@berkberkman@bae.st it's not going anywhere. It's just going to move to revolver.

@j@bae.st @berkberkman@bae.st fedora.email is going to move to revolver? I thought it was only the federated stuff (baest) that was moving to revolver, since I was under the impression that's what revolver was for.