Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.
The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.
This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!
WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group @medmastodon
If you follow this group, you can:
- Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
- Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.
Thank you for the correction and additional information.
@rimu@piefed.social a bug report: Piefed is removing the title of the post, which profoundly affects its understandability.
Haha friendica puts the post title and link IN the post content as HTML!
<h1><b><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1pxtglg/my_instance_went_dark_is_there_any_possibility_of//" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.</a></b></h1>sigh
@OpenStars@piefed.social I’ve written a fix for this, so Friendica posts like that will be rendered better.
So quick, that’s fantastic! 🤩
It’s not released yet, this fix will come out with v1.5.
I’m probably going to switch to making smaller releases from now on (one big monster every 4-6 weeks contains too many changes for people to really absorb and understand) so 1.5 might be sooner than you expect.
That makes perfect sense, and I suppose posts such as this are rare, and people in this community are likely to still remember this situation if it happens again in the short interim.:-)
@OpenStars Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.
@piratepost@poliverso.org that’s wonderful! And as Rimu mentioned the PieFed software will be fixed in the next release to help facilitate future cross-platform communications, this has been a very encouraging post!:-)