Today, it was announced that one of Japan's large Mastodon servers, friends.nico, will be shut down after a month.

There have been changes to operators on large servers so far, but it is the first time for large servers to be shut down, and attention is being paid to what effect this may have.

Japan's mastodon user's timeline is temporarily bustling with this topic.

Official announcement
blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/105

News Site Articles
itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/19
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@noellabo As grows, we will have to get used to things like this. Important instances may go down at some point in their existence, they won't all last forever. It is sad, but at the same time remember that new ones will come in their place: The system sustains itself.

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