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- mint.lgbt is a service provider built for and run by LGBTQIA+ - people. Founded in 2020, we're a non-profit run by - Lux and - Luna focusing on - providing privacy-respecting FOSS services. -

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Hello everyone, this is Lux.

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- After 4 years of offering services, we're announcing the permanent termination of the mint.lgbt - service provider, set to happen on August 8th, 2024. This was not an easy decision for us to - make, but we're no longer able to keep maintaining the service due to a lack of funds and time. - We'll go through our history and reasons in detail, how everything will unfold during the shutdown - process, some recommended services users can move to, and some questions we think may arise. -

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How

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- We'll run mint.lgbt for an additional 3 months. During this time period, users are advised to export their - data and move out to another alternative. In the next section, we provide some recommended alternatives. -

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Q: If I pay you, can you keep running it?

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- It depends. If it's enough for Luna to maintain it well, and for me to start affording necessities, then maybe? -

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UPDATE: SHUTDOWN AVERTED

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+ Hello everyone! Thanks for all of the feedback these past few + days. I've been talking with + people who are more experienced in these subjects. In a + nutshell: mint.lgbt is NOT shutting down. +

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Why

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- We started back in July of 2020, when I bought the domain to start my own personal website. - I rented a very inexpensive VPS to host everything I needed. At the time I also needed to host some - additional services side-by-side. The first one was Femgit, which has become the longest running - service in the suite. After looking back at the server load, I noticed much of the VPS was going - unused, with little to no plans on adding more services on top of the existing ones. With this in mind, - I decided to open up registrations on Femgit. This gave me a bigger idea: What if that was the entire - focus of the site? -

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+ First, I want to apologize for taking things to this point. I + should've evaluated this situation with deeper care, to + ensure whether this was the right path for the future or not. + I'll be frankly honest, right now I'm not in the best of places + financially. For a long time I thought of selling the domain as + my last resort to get cash quick in cases like this. It turns + out, I was wrong. The domain holds little to no monetary value, + because it simply isn't commercial. And while it's true that the + project is financially taxing, I've found a potential future + path that will keep the project running exactly the same if not + better, and solves our financial struggles from running it. +

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- Considering the TLD I had chosen, I determined, if this was to be the future for the website, it would - be to satisfy the necessities of LGBTQIA+ folk. Considering how, even to this day, queer rights are - not universally respected, privacy can be used as a huge tool for defense. Therefore, this was the focus - the project would point towards: Privacy tools for queer people. -

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+ We've moved already part of our infrastructure + away from our main VPS, which has been the single biggest cost + throughout the entire project's history, and into several + of our homeservers. For instance, our Matrix and XMPP servers + are running in my home, a few meters away from where I'm typing + this + announcement. The idea is to slightly bump the specs on my + homeserver + in order to move every remaining service away from our VPS and + into it. The only exception is email, which will have to be + moved to a separate VPS. However, we'll be moving away from our + current email server, and into Stalwart, which has proven + to be pretty well optimized from my testing. +

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- I caved in, and moved my own personal website to a subdomain, while rebranding the main website. Luna, - who I worked with on a previous project joined in, and ever since then we've been running the website - under this purpose. Funding was mostly left out to either donations or, if none were present, pocket - money, and we both had rather free schedules due to the high schools not being too demanding, and the - COVID-19 pandemic. The project was also welcomed in my family, helping me fund it occasionally. -

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+ This, in total, reduces our yearly operating costs from $194 + USD, down to $86 USD. This accounts for our domain, backups, and + server bills. +

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- However, we're not living under the same scenarios nowadays. I'm now a college student, working with a - rather tight budget, where I'm way more limited in terms of my weekly budget. A lot of my time is spent - up studying, so I cannot continuously maintain the server. Luna cannot maintain it either, as she's not - yet in a situation with stable income either. -

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+ I'd like to give special thanks to Cadence, who I + extensively talked with in order to reach this conclusion. And + thanks to everyone who has used and participated in the project. + It means a lot to me that people are interested in what I do. + I'm looking forward to keep running mint.lgbt with y'all. And if + y'all wanna help run the project, you're more than welcome! Just + shoot me an email and we can + see what comes out of it. +

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- We technically could ask for donations more frequently, but that would still be essentially feeding - cash into an unsustainable project. Therefore, we determined it's best to end things here and now. -

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- After this time period passes, the main VPS will be removed, and every subdomain will be null-routed. The main - website will be replaced with a shutdown notice, and the domain will be put on sale. After it is purchased, - the domain will be transferred to the next domain owner, which means we'll no longer be affiliated to whatever - project starts in this exact domain. No databases will be transferred to anyone, as to protect them from being - potentially misused. -

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- If you didn't get your data in time, don't worry! We'll hold onto the databases privately for a while. Keep in - mind however that we can't recover data from Matrix or XMPP, since those services either store E2EE data, or - only store data for a short period of time, after which it gets wiped. -

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Where to Move

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- Here are some service providers we highly recommend, which share a lot of common philosophy with our - collective. -

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  • Constellatory. Hosts a Matrix homeserver, Invidious, and SearxNG. Great infrastructure
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  • besties. Another collective similar to ours. Offers a Git forge, file sharing, DNS lookup, and a Mastodon instance
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  • knotsinside.me. Offers XMPP. Has a very... um... interesting domain name. If that's ok with you, then check it out!
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  • snug.moe. Offers XMPP, but with a simpler domain name. Also has Peertube, Matrix (invite-only), and Iceshrimp instances
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  • PussTheCat.org. Has a lot of private frontends!
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    Potential FAQ

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    Q: Can I buy mint.lgbt?

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    - Yes, but don't expect to get the databases or anything. Also, the sale will work in a "highest bidder" basis, - and domain valuators cannot decide how much it should sell for. For reference, GoDaddy sets it at $3,408 USD -

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    Q: I donated recently, and just found out about this.

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    - If you need a refund, let me know through email at lux@nixgoat.me, and we can sort it out. -

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    Conclusion

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    - Thanks to everyone for staying around for all these years. It was fun to run mint.lgbt and to form a community - that tied a lot of people together. We're excited to see y'all in future endeavours! Y'all can find us in the - websites we've listed in the homepage, but if you can't access it, check out mine - and Luna's. Farewell. -

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