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A NEW OWNER FOR AETHY HAS BEEN FOUND! 🎉

The vibes are flawless, and the agreement has been signed!

Over the next week we will be transferring all necessary services (domain, server, mail etc) to the new owner.

Once all that's been done, the Big Official announcement will be made.

There will also be NO restriction on LSC due to the new owner's local laws not criminalizing fictional works 🥳

EDIT: Our rules on realistic 3D will remain; by no restrictions we mean within our current rules.

Dec 13, 2024, 23:09 · · · Web · 220 · 284
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@punkbot OH this is great news!

@punkbot THANK GOD! Running your own server is magic I swear.

@punkbot
Thank goodness. I hate the misskey interface on FreaksOnly.

@punkbot YIPPIE IM SO HAPPY!! thank you and everyone involved so much for the hard work!!

@punkbot WE DID IT EVERYONE!!! 🎉

@punkbot Thank you all for working to keep the site going! This is great news :blobcataww: :blobcatheartsqueeze:

@punkbot Pre-party at my house in uuuhhh....... i cant do math, SooN!!!!!!!!!!!! How ever long we need to wait before the final/ Official announcement!!!

@Saippua I'll bring snacks!

@punkbot a few things:

first and foremost, congratulations for finding a new owner and being able to preserve this space. you all have done an incredible thing and i couldn't be happier for the admin team and the community you all have so graciously fostered.

will this include a physical migration on the server-side? if so, will there be any downtime while the transition takes place and how long do you estimate that will be?

is it spain. please for the love of god tell me it's spain. you don't have to hard confirm just. just give me a little nod or head shake if it's spain. i have money on it.

@rudytuesday 1. <3
2. Yes and potentially!
3. ⬅️➡️🙂

@punkbot FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! (thank you tho)

@punkbot hell yeaaaahhh brotherrr!! thank you for your hard work ❤️ I’m so relieved I won’t have to move to a place that would potentially cut off baraag follows without moving there myself

@punkbot fantastic news. It would have been a great loss to the internet to lose another place that supports artistic free expression and is anti-censorship.

@punkbot AMAZING NEWS!! Thank you so much for the effort to keep this place alive! And everyone involved thank you for your service 🫡🫡

@punkbot does that mean aethy is saved?????

@33sharkbit3z Indeed it does! New ownership is secured and we will be continuing to operate! Just have to transfer everything over :dragn_owo:

@Dragon if you guys do the transfer, what would that mean? Is the site gonna change appearance or something?

@33sharkbit3z Nope! We're just handing ownership over to a new individual, so they'll be responsible for the servers and data and finances and everything. Nothing about Aethy as you know it will change!

@Dragon Well, hope you guys found the right person to do everything. Since you guys stated that their local laws dont cater to censorship, is the laws gonna be outside the US laws or you cant say yet?

@33sharkbit3z We're not at liberty to say where our new owner is, but rest assured the local laws are permissive of all the content Aethy has allowed in the past. The reason we started to shut down was because of increased prosecution of obscenity law in the US, but that won't be an issue anymore!

@Dragon I see, well I hope they can avoid censorship completely! Still sounds like this is good news

@Dragon when is this migration happening specifically? users should get a choice on whether they are OK with their account data being transferred to an unknown third party in an unknown country, with the option to delete their data prior to said migration. i am not vibing with my Aethy data being transferred to a stranger

between the short notice shutdown and now this, i am extremely disappointed and its hard to muster any sense of trust

@punkbot by the way - out of curiosity, do you know if taullo will continue developing ruffy :0 ? obviously my main reason to stay on aethy is the safe environment, but i've grown to love ruffy and would absolutely love to see it continue to be developed :3

@GILLESPITCH @trashgaylie

A modified version of Mastodon (the software Aethy uses)

@punkbot Is taullo still going to be involved with aethy in some way after this?

@AgainstQuintessence As tech support (since they are developing Ruffy, which Aethy runs on - no Ruffy no Aethy). They want to step back from every other aspect of Aethy due to burnout, the moderation team and new owner are more than equipped to continue maintaining the site.

@punkbot 🌈🌈:party_parrot::party_parrot:​​:apartyblobcat::apartyblobcat:🎊🎊​ PARTY!!!! 🎊🎊:apartyblobcat::apartyblobcat::party_parrot::party_parrot:🌈🌈

@punkbot

Thank you so muuuuch THANK YOU 😭

@punkbot Aaaa, this makes me feel like I jumped ship too soon... With the way the initial announcement was done, I didn't expect the site to be saved. I'll likely move back or maintain two accounts. I did have to just scrap moving over all my old content here, thanks to restrictions on some content... As much as I get it, that was also my coping mechanism so :sob: I'd like to have my little space back.

@punkbot no me esperaba que hubiera buenas noticias, para mi es inesperado y estoy feliz

@punkbot And this being announced on Friday the frickin' 13th of all days.

Either way, I'm so happy that Aethy's staying!

@laciathystle I didn't even NOTICE... Gonna pretend it was intentional for the clout /j

@punkbot omg I'm so happy!! This is wonderful news!

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@punkbot YES OMG!!!!!

@punkbot so glad aethy's here to stay!

@punkbot OMG YES I'M SO HAPPY AAA :blobcatbongocry: :blobcatbongocry: :blobcatbongocry:

@punkbot I guess it's a good news. Let's hope everything will be alright.

@punkbot I'm so glad to hear it!
Thanks for the hard work from the admins, as someone who doesn't know much about making sites, I can only imagine it's complicated to organize all this.

@sleepy_light I would never lie to grub Sollux

@punkbot thank you so much good adult person <3

@punkbot Congratulations on the find, and thank you for your continued efforts in the face of everything.