Okay, some really bad news but also a suggestion for a way forward.
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@FediTips the .pe TLD is really surprising in this regard. it got me too, i used to own pix.pe and pup.pe and lost them in exactly this way
I'm so sorry, that is awful!
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@FediTips Mind you, I don't expect a reply or an answer that isn't “Yeah, they just forgot to renew it.”
If it is the latter, that's a big part of the reason the Fediverse is the way it is rn.
Apparently these are ccTLDs which aren't covered by ICANN:
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@gytisrepecka @FediTips I'd like to know, too. Not that I think the others will be much better...
This is apparently not a registrar problem but a ccTLD problem, anyone using these ccTLDs is at risk of them being bought up to 12 days before expiration:
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@FediTips Would you mind adding a warning at the top of your tip page about groups ? For example : This page is no longer valid and will be updated in the near future. Thanks. https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/
Yeah, I'm just about to rewrite that!
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It's a very, very odd policy, seems to be just begging domain squatters to exploit it.
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Okay, some really bad news but also a suggestion for a way forward.
The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog
However, there is another group provider called FediGroups, you can find out more on their site:
️ https://about.fedigroups.social/homeFediGroups has features that Guppe never had, including private groups.
(More info about #Guppe situation: https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118 )
@FediTips Perhaps a silly question: wouldn't a certain hashtag and it's subscription do everything that these gup.pe groups did? Like I begin #sillyGroupUsers and everybody would use that hashtag?
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@FediTips Perhaps a silly question: wouldn't a certain hashtag and it's subscription do everything that these gup.pe groups did? Like I begin #sillyGroupUsers and everybody would use that hashtag?
No, because hashtags don't actively push content to other servers.
When you follow a hashtag, it's basically a filter for whatever is on your server anyway. If your server hasn't noticed a particular account yet, it won't notice that account's posts on that hashtag.
When you follow a group, it actively pulls in all posts from anyone on any server that posts to that group.
Groups are basically "super hashtags" in a way
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Okay, some really bad news but also a suggestion for a way forward.
The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog
However, there is another group provider called FediGroups, you can find out more on their site:
️ https://about.fedigroups.social/homeFediGroups has features that Guppe never had, including private groups.
(More info about #Guppe situation: https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118 )
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To be fair, the maintainer has said they will cancel subs and issue refunds: https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118#issuecomment-3263730414
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p.s. For those wondering how this can happen, the .pe domain which gup.pe used has a highly unusual clause which allows anyone to buy the domain 12 days *before* it expires:
"The .CH, .ES, .FR, .LI, .PE, .SG, .COM.SG, .COM.AU, .ORG.AU, .NET.AU TLDs must be renewed 12 days prior to the actual expiration date. If not renewed, the domain will enter the redemption stage right away regardless of the number of days left until expiration."
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9916/2207/tlds-grace-periods
(Thanks @anonax for info!)
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Okay, some really bad news but also a suggestion for a way forward.
The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog
However, there is another group provider called FediGroups, you can find out more on their site:
️ https://about.fedigroups.social/homeFediGroups has features that Guppe never had, including private groups.
(More info about #Guppe situation: https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118 )
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Are they federated with Mastodon, and other platformThey were federated with Mastodon, there were problems federating with some other Fedi platforms though.
FediGroups is better for compatibility with other Fedi platforms.
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No idea! It makes no sense.
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Okay, some really bad news but also a suggestion for a way forward.
The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog
However, there is another group provider called FediGroups, you can find out more on their site:
️ https://about.fedigroups.social/homeFediGroups has features that Guppe never had, including private groups.
(More info about #Guppe situation: https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118 )
@FediTips fedigroups won't even get back to me even after using their submission form
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@FediTips fedigroups won't even get back to me even after using their submission form
You might want to tag their account to ask about that?
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@FediTips fedigroups won't even get back to me even after using their submission form
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They are really, really busy as they're suddenly getting way more people contacting them than before:
https://fedigroups.social/@hello/115176629107600467
It's an unpaid volunteer running it and manually checking each application, I think we just need to give them some time to catch up
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Okay, some really bad news but also a suggestion for a way forward.
The Guppe groups domain name was sold by their registrar before they could renew it. This means all Guppe groups are broken, and their web addresses point to a spam blog
However, there is another group provider called FediGroups, you can find out more on their site:
️ https://about.fedigroups.social/homeFediGroups has features that Guppe never had, including private groups.
(More info about #Guppe situation: https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118 )
I made a FediGroup for artists! Enjoy and feel free to boost!
@drawingfedigroups.social
It's a shame, but FediGroups don't allow NSFW artworks
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I've been telling people about these new FediGroups (including your one) over on @FediFollows
