@Gargron what happened?
@citrustwee friends.nico will close at 28 April.
friends.nico サービス終了のお知らせ https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/105071.html
@amic @Gargron Shutting down in a month https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/105071.html
@Gargron Would also like to know what's happened.
@Gargron maybe they could sell it to you
@Gargron Couldn't they fund it via Patreon or so?
@Gargron wait friends.nico is shutting down?! why cant we take it over?
@Gargron I don't know if I'm being a bad guy by bringing up a feature discussion here. But I believe this event is an important reminder to why we need full account #migration support.
People who had their entire history there will be able to download the archive, but not import it to any other #Mastodon server until then. All of their existing posts will likely be lost on a hard drive, as they'll have to start from scratch on the new instance they will be registering on.
@MirceaKitsune Totally agree! This is one of the reasons I'm not comfortable asking many of my family/friends to join Mastodon. Also, it's harder for me to move over to an instance I'm hosting, since I'll lose many of the followers I have here.
Invite-only Mastodon server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
As I understand, Dwango has not been doing too well financially and while they have previously expanded into providing various services including a Mastodon server (friends.nico), now they are shutting down all ventures that don't bring revenue
I'm sad because they've got an amazing domain name, super cute elephant drawings, I have spoken to their engineers over video, they invited me to Tokyo (although I didn't go, I attended over teleconference)