Today I am announcing the gradual shutdown of our Mastodonbooks server. The server will stay active until June 11, 2024 for you to find a new home and to allow for moving and redirecting followers, follows, bookmarks, mute lists and block lists.

However, shutting down this server does not mean the end of Mastodonbooks! In May 2023 Mastodon announced 'Groups are on the way' and while we still don't have a specific release date, 'Mastodon Groups' will essentially duplicate what small public servers (like us) are doing today.

With this in mind, a new parallel Mastodonbooks account has been created on mastodon.social. And when available, a new 'Books Group' will be created. In the meantime if you want to keep in touch with our community I created a gup.pe group at:

• From any Mastodon server, paste the following handle in your search box and follow:
  @mastodonbooks@a.gup.pe


• From outside Mastodon servers enter the full URL and follow:
  https://mastodon.social/@mastodonbooks@a.gup.pe

Usage:

In your posts, near the bottom enter @mastodonbooks@a.gup.pe to share a post with everyone in the group

So what does that mean for you?

• You have three months to find a new server (home) but I wouldn't leave it until the last moment. I recommend mastodon.social, the original Mastodon server. It is well funded with 1.8 million+ users and supports a core of full-time engineers ensuring high uptime, latest updates and 'longevity' (however, any Mastodon server will do).


• Once you have made a new server choice, moving is easy. See text and video details at:
notes.mastodonbooks.net/moving

I will keep you posted as I move through this new chapter.

Thank you 😊
Roger