Dead and dying instances

2026-01-31^[5] mastodon-japan.net, as of 2025-09^[update], there are 6,455,338 posts.^[6]
2025-03-16^[7] tbs.social, user count unknown
2024-12-27^[8] aethy.com, user count unknown
2024-12-17^[9] mozilla.social, 182 active users
2024-12-01^[10] social.npo.nl, 6 users
2024-10-29^[11] botsin.space, 2.5k users
2024-09-23^[12] strangeobject.space, 168 users
2024-07-04^[13] enshittification.social, 21 users
2024-05-18^[14] social.network.europa.eu, 18 users
2024-01-01^[15] cybre.space, 2.86k users
2023-05-09^[16] mastodon.lol, 18k users
2022-12-01^[17] mastodon.technology, 23.6k users
2020-11-1^[18]: snouts.online^[19], 3054 users, 2265852 statuses, Partially saved/Not saved yet
between 2019-10-09^[20] and 2019-11-16: mastodon.dregin.com^[21]^[22], 16 users, 98 statuses, Saved!, job:6t10b41nvx3gdl7pjsebx56dm
between 2019-07-14^[23] and 2019-08-11^[24]: www.bookbeezhive.com^[25], 101 users, 6345 statuses, Saved!, job:tthg1hszz9bjl1uwxzoy9a7w
2019-05-18: berries.space^[26]^[27], 3k users, 634k statuses, Saved!, job:11lu0srbwxroh7huboiej67wp, job:8grwhmq7awexfnuozbd6o29h9 (The fallout of the archiving of this instances resulted in the moratorium on Fediverse archival)
between 2019-05-06^[28] and 2019-11-16: waytoo.online^[29], 3 users, 786 statuses, Saved!, job:au35hf4x8hwq290wf3v7nr4vt
2019-05-07: smusi.ch^[30], 548 users, 4776 statuses, Saved!, job:a1ylhltresype3wqgti7j75xq
2019-05-??: terrafirma.space^[31], number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
2019-04-28: friends.nico^[32], 48k users, 23.6M statuses, Partially saved, job:bnep6tuzykw7n2p00d1fzo8os, job:8fmcbfaimu9yxyw6o9ov41ewi, job:boyjduz4g0zwd6jkickjaclfo, job:36y6ladhmmtkfnthy4xljnh46, job:cxhzh6fdf1rvxqt952r3eo5h5, job:2p8yjkcv6gljavrs4n8m1uly8, job:3mqd2z115rjuv6hszk1ulf2s8
2019-04-26: muses.gallery^[33], 135 users, 2369 statuses, Saved!, job:dvgy39m1dh3kiacf72g6uy70
2019-04-16: prose.zone^[34], 125 users, 29k statuses, Saved!, job:77eyy43pwo1t6ss9cxmorqgfi
2019-04-22: humanities.one^[35]^[36], 71 users, 800 statuses, Saved!, job:ae3aq93csqv597wdzlatfjvj4
2019-04-??: djs.social, after first announcing a shutdown end of February^[37]^[38] and then announcing that the instance would stay online with changed rules^[39], it shut down sometime between 2019-04-13^[40] and 2019-04-22^[41]; 174 users, 2.9k statuses, Saved!, job:4v0owecf2yc17orqaavuggpdr
2019-04-??: lamp.institute^[42] disappeared between 2019-04-08^[43] and 2019-04-13^[44], 46 users, 84k statuses, Saved!, job:8kqsx32rlhdtclls5g1b37la2
2019-04-09: pleasehug.me^[45], 192 users, 15k statuses, Saved!, job:2nn2fx0ge4zf7az19gyfj5g10
2019-01-??: mastodon.rocks seems to have broken entirely sometime between 2019-01-23^[46]^[47] and 2019-02-03^[48] with the "about" page returning an error 500 page, and the SSL certificate expired on 2019-03-05^[49] and was not renewed as of 2019-03-24^[50]; 441 users, 2781 statuses as of 2019-01-15^[51], Lost
2019-01-19: ilovela.in^[52], 34 users, 18k statuses, Saved!, job:cme7xo8rj4oacpkbkll0tffga
2019-01-10: threddy.social^[53]^[54], number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
2019-01-06: theboss.tech^[55], 243 users and 724k status as of November 2018^[56], Lost
2018-12-??: apoil.org, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
2018-12-??: webdev.network^[57], 144 users, 765 statuses, Saved!, job:3w7bgh9a2or69ke15dfyttzib
2018-11-01: unixcorn.xyz^[58], 1k users and 33k statuses as of May 2018, Lost
ca. 2018-10-??: bofa.lol, created 2018-08-17 according to WHOIS^[59], 630 users and 143k statuses as of 2018-09-05^[60], Lost
after 2018-05-10: spooky.pizza, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
2018-04-30: witches.town^[61], 2.4k users, 1.3M statuses, Saved!, job:do3wklp5q85gm4pfkhqn76gj
2018-03-16: mastodon.rocks crashed and lost all data, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
2018-03-07: hiveway.net^[62], 1.4k users, 5.5k statuses, Saved!, job:2i0bmlsqg80ugsyg7tyxp11x9
after 2018-02-04^[63]: social.arbleizez.bzh, Lost
2017-10-??: socially.constructed.space, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
ca. 2017-09-??: fern.surgeplay.com, 163 users and 882 statuses as of June 2017^[64], Lost
ca. 2017-07-??: toot.works, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
ca. 2017-06-??: pouet.sbaron.fr, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
after 2017-04-??: wogan.im, number of users and statuses unknown, Lost
ca. 2017-04-??: masto.yellowkeycard.net, number of users and statuses unknown (probably single-user^[65]), Lost
ca. 2017-04-??: mastodon.cx, 1.7k users, 3.9k statuses, Lost