>Anyway the last post on the site was made in nov last year (2025) and Goodspeed explains with BRILLIANT CLARITY some of the issues facing the free software community, and that they are moving to hosting a fediverse server instead. Interestingly they chose a PieFed instance and according to the post they can only federate with other #PieFed or #Lemmy instances (?). I was super curious so I went to visit their instance only to find that the certificate was only for samsung domains?!

I can contact them what happened.

This site, which is dedicated to an alleged free software community in China, is hosted on servers in Germany. It is being mirrored on i2p (fsfans.i2p), im guessing, without the express knowlegde or permission of the webmaster (William Goodspeed?). One of the more delightful pages is this one learn.fsfans.club/

(the learn.* subdomain is not being mirrored on i2p)

Anyway the last post on the site was made in nov last year (2025) and Goodspeed explains with BRILLIANT CLARITY some of the issues facing the free software community, and that they are moving to hosting a fediverse server instead. Interestingly they chose a PieFed instance and according to the post they can only federate with other #PieFed or #Lemmy instances (?). I was super curious so I went to visit their instance only to find that the certificate was only for samsung domains?!

Beyond that point of course I expect that the site is broken, and true to form, fetching pages doesnt work and errors on the page reference an akamai domain (errors.edgesuite.net). For those playing along at home akamai is the last 'A' in the techno-fascists acronym CAGeMAFiA. but to be honest anything beyond the certificate issue is not important, just a curiousity.

can anyone shed light on what happened to this instanve? I was not on fedi at the time, having my 19 month forced-by-circumstance hiatus, lol @p @r @gabriel @rms @silverpill ?? if not i invite u to ingore this post completely.

Frage | Friendica: Wie gut funktioniert das mit der Federation?

Guten Morgen Zusammen Ich habe mal eine Frage betreffs Federation. Und zwar habe ich gesehen das ich in Sachen Beiträge vor allen via Lemmy Feedback bekomme, aber in den allermeisten Fällen kaum aus dem Rest des Fediverse. Dabei ist mir klar das ich wenn ich in eine Lemmy Community poste, ich recht viele Leute erreiche. Aber das erklärt eben nicht warum aus dem Rest des Fediverse wo ich sehr viel mehr Kontakte habe die mir folgen so wenig zurück bekomme.

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