public: Announce the shutdown for mint.lgbt
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<b>BREAKING NEWS:</b>
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We've launched our BreezeWiki mirror! We have also officially shut down our Libreddit instance due to the Reddit API changes.
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mint.lgbt is shutting down. Read more <a href="/shutdown">here.</a>
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<title>Shutdown - mint.lgbt</title>
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<a href="../">← Go back</a>
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<h2><u>mint.lgbt is shutting down</u></h2>
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<p>Hello everyone, this is Lux.</p>
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<p>
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After 4 years of offering services, we're announcing the permanent termination of the mint.lgbt
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service provider, set to happen on August 8th, 2024. This was not an easy decision for us to
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make, but we're no longer able to keep maintaining the service due to a lack of funds and time.
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We'll go through our history and reasons in detail, how everything will unfold during the shutdown
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process, some recommended services users can move to, and some questions we think may arise.
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</p>
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<h3><u>Why</u></h3>
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<p>
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We started back in July of 2020, when I bought the domain to start my own personal website.
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I rented a very inexpensive VPS to host everything I needed. At the time I also needed to host some
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additional services side-by-side. The first one was Femgit, which has become the longest running
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service in the suite. After looking back at the server load, I noticed much of the VPS was going
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unused, with little to no plans on adding more services on top of the existing ones. With this in mind,
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I decided to open up registrations on Femgit. This gave me a bigger idea: What if that was the entire
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focus of the site?
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Considering the TLD I had chosen, I determined, if this was to be the future for the website, it would
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be to satisfy the necessities of LGBTQIA+ folk. Considering how, even to this day, queer rights are
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not universally respected, privacy can be used as a huge tool for defense. Therefore, this was the focus
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the project would point towards: Privacy tools for queer people.
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</p>
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<p>
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I caved in, and moved my own personal website to a subdomain, while rebranding the main website. Luna,
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who I worked with on a previous project joined in, and ever since then we've been running the website
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under this purpose. Funding was mostly left out to either donations or, if none were present, pocket
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money, and we both had rather free schedules due to the high schools not being too demanding, and the
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COVID-19 pandemic. The project was also welcomed in my family, helping me fund it occasionally.
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</p>
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<p>
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However, we're not living under the same scenarios nowadays. I'm now a college student, working with a
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rather tight budget, where I'm way more limited in terms of my weekly budget. A lot of my time is spent
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up studying, so I cannot continuously maintain the server. Luna cannot maintain it either, as she's not
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yet in a situation with stable income either.
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</p>
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<p>
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We technically could ask for donations more frequently, but that would still be essentially feeding
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cash into an unsustainable project. Therefore, we determined it's best to end things here and now.
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<h3>How</h3>
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<p>
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We'll run mint.lgbt for an additional 3 months. During this time period, users are advised to export their
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data and move out to another alternative. In the next section, we provide some recommended alternatives.
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<p>
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After this time period passes, the main VPS will be removed, and every subdomain will be null-routed. The main
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website will be replaced with a shutdown notice, and the domain will be put on sale. After it is purchased,
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the domain will be transferred to the next domain owner, which means we'll no longer be affiliated to whatever
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project starts in this exact domain. No databases will be transferred to anyone, as to protect them from being
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potentially misused.
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</p>
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<p>
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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
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mind however that we can't recover data from Matrix or XMPP, since those services either store E2EE data, or
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only store data for a short period of time, after which it gets wiped.
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</p>
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<h3>Where to Move</h3>
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<p>
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Here are some service providers we highly recommend, which share a lot of common philosophy with our
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collective.
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</p>
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<li><a href="https://constellatory.net">Constellatory</a>. Hosts a Matrix homeserver, Invidious, and SearxNG. Great infrastructure</li>
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<li><a href="https://besties.house">besties</a>. Another collective similar to ours. Offers a Git forge, file sharing, DNS lookup, and a Mastodon instance</li>
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<li><a href="http://knotsinside.me/">knotsinside.me</a>. Offers XMPP. Has a very... um... interesting domain name. If that's ok with you, then check it out!</li>
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<li><a href="https://info.snug.moe">snug.moe</a>. Offers XMPP, but with a simpler domain name. Also has Peertube, Matrix (invite-only), and Iceshrimp instances</li>
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<li><a href="https://pussthecat.org">PussTheCat.org</a>. Has a lot of private frontends!</li>
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<h3>Potential FAQ</h3>
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<p>Q: Can I buy mint.lgbt?</p>
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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,
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and domain valuators cannot decide how much it should sell for. For reference, GoDaddy sets it at $3,408 USD
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</p>
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<p>Q: If I pay you, can you keep running it?</p>
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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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</p>
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<p>Q: I donated recently, and just found out about this.</p>
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<p>
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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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</p>
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<h3>Conclusion</h3>
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<p>
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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
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that tied a lot of people together. We're excited to see y'all in future endeavours! Y'all can find us in the
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websites we've listed in the homepage, but if you can't access it, check out <a href="https://nixgoat.me/">mine</a>
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and <a href="https://woem.men/@luna">Luna's</a>. Farewell.
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Femgit icon by <a href="https://j0.lol">j0</a>.
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<br>
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mint.lgbt leaf graciously donated by
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<a href="https://corviform.gay">Ember</a>.
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<br>
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<span id="copy">©</span> 2020-2024 mint.lgbt. Licensed
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<a href="https://fem.mint.lgbt/mint-lgbt/website/src/branch/develop/LICENSE">ISC license</a>.
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