@atomicpoet If they could buy those instances, that's...

@atomicpoet If they could buy those instances, that's also because they were for sale.

Migration is gonna be difficult for Japanese users. Who's going to run a new Japanese instance that could welcome ~1.2 million users? (if there's really 1.2m active users, Pawoo kind of cheated on this)

Also they all run on an obsolete version of Mastodon (namely 3.3 or 3.4) so no automatic migration.
Pawoo is even a fork that was heavily patched at a time were a lot of features weren't available. They were #1 in creating new features when they were owned by Pixiv.

Like 21 Dec 2022 at 9:49 | Wall-to-wall | Open on shelter.moe

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fenarinarsa :pokeball:

@atomicpoet And btw, a lot of Japanese people that are aware of Pawoo or even use it don't even know it's a Mastodon server.

21 Dec 2022 at 10:20 | Open on shelter.moe

kaukamieli

@fenarinarsa
Stuff often surprisingly becomes for sale when you are offered enough cash.
@atomicpoet

21 Dec 2022 at 10:55 | Open on c.im

fenarinarsa :pokeball:

@kaukamieli @atomicpoet espescially if you're offered cash for something that is becoming increasingly hard to maintain

21 Dec 2022 at 10:57 | Open on shelter.moe