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medmastodon
If you've got a follow notification from me but thought you already followed me/I you - our old instance got shut down recently so I've made a new account.
Hope to see you back in the feed/follows! 🙏
#MedMastodon #NewAccount #FollowThursday
#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne, AKA Noodlemaz!
I've actually been here since 2022 but my old instance just got shut down (med-mastodon refugee). Please follow me again here 🙃
I'm a science communicator based in London, UK.
I'm in London's nerdiest choir, Ready Singer One - we do music from video games, film and TV!
My PhD was in cancer biology; molecular pathology of cancer.
I love games, nature, SciFi friends (hi!), music etc. and look forward to chatting here 
#videoGames #sciFi #London #choir #choralSinging #music #cancer #scicomm #videoGamesMusic #birds #medMastodon
Edited 13d ago
As a bit of a different one, I have just had an e-mail from Nick who founded and setup #MedMastodon after I offered to take over the site following it's short notice closure just before the new year, he has come back now to confirm he's happy for me to take on the running the maintenance of the site and has looped in the team from Masto.Host to progress this.
I'm hoping that means we can get the site back up and running in the not too distant future and I'll look to get it migrated over to the same infrastructure that we use for MastodonApp.UK and Universeodon.com to hopefully give some better flexibility for growth and benefit from the existing work and scale in place.
I'll keep folks updated as and when I hear more and as we progress getting the site back online.
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
EDIT - Blog post with details: https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
Edited 6d ago
Just as a quick note as well for #MedMastodon folks - The instance is going to be staying up longer term, I have no intention to just shut the instance down after the current subscription expires at the end of the month.
The transfer ended up happening a bit quicker than I had expected (A great thing in this case) but it did mean I was mid way through cooking dinner and working on a customer project when everything started to progress so I haven't quite gotten around to writing something more detailed up in terms of the future of the site but do want to confirm the plan is for it to be sticking around long term now no matter what :)
We're going ahead and adding `miniwa.moe` to our list of suspended servers across #MastodonAppUK #Universeodon and #MedMastodon as there appears to be no active moderation taking place and reports of transphobic behaviour have been ignored by their moderators.
I'm not expecting this to impact the vast majority of folks across our instances but you might see a follower / following drop by 1 or 2.