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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by skribe@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Apologies if this is not appropriate. I wasn't sure where else to ask. Anyone know what happened to piefed.au. it's just disappeared.

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[–] Linearity@piefed.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] skribe@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for that. Was that posted to a newsletter? I'm surprised I missed it if it was posted on piefed.au. IIRC, I joined there around September.

[–] Linearity@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m assuming this email was sent to all addresses that people used to register to the server

[–] skribe@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, no. I didn't receive it. I just checked.

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

The last time piefed.social received an activity from piefed.au is 2025-11-01 03:39:25.107725. I have no insight into their situation, but it might just be gone. Fediverse instances come and go sometimes.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How long has the site been down, as far as you know?

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Last snapshot in wayback machine is from last month

[–] skribe@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

The weekend that piefed.social had its... issues (the first time), I checked piefed.au on the Friday to see if the problem was summit. It worked fine. When I returned on the Sunday, it was gone.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm... it seems https://well-known.dev/sites/piefed.au last saw it around as of four days ago (saved for posterity at https://archive.ph/hjDuK ), but now I'm getting NXDOMAIN from chrome, so the registration just vanished.

Which is interesting because checking with GoDaddy WHOIS says, https://ca.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=piefed.au

Updated On
2025-11-20T15:43:38Z
Domain Status
server hold
server update prohibited

Suggesting that the DNS registration expired earlier, 9 days ago.

Alas, GoDaddy only gives a name - Chris Price - and no other useful contact info like an email address or phone number that can be used to reach out.

Of course, well-known also only found out about piefed.au in late October, while there's evidence of it being around for much longer than that - e.g. https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571/17024992

However, when I look, I can't find evidence of federation happening more recently than one month ago - e.g. https://al.lemmy.hostux.net/l.hostux.net/u/Linearity@piefed.au

This makes me think that the admin planned to shut it down, and abandoned it approximately one month ago - but the hosting provider simply kept it around until now.