Has vlemmy.net lost its domain name?

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I'm thinking it might be down for good, all of the donation links go to closed accounts
https://liberapay.com/vlemmy
https://buy.stripe.com/8wM9BI4Vj1vh0GkbIJ
https://buy.stripe.com/5kA3dk4Vja1N60E000
- What a weird way to go out, yesterday the owner was talking about how to proceed in the future and apologized for having to block an instance
  
  I don't wanna be that kinda person, but it's possible the owner had some visitation from the local authorities. It's not uncommon to use a server for multiple things, and I could imagine that there might have been some... not so cool things on there
  
  Well, they only defedded from REDACTED the day before so pretty likely. Hopefully they're just doing due diligence.
  
  Here's the post: https://lemmy.world/post/1148656
  
  Yeah I read through that post last night. My guess is they got spooked about being potentially liable for anything cached that they may have federated with and just pulled the plug.
  
  The only reason I dont think that is the case is because the donation links are down. I still dont know what happened, I wish someone knew his mastodon or any other social media.
  
  No? Wouldn't the donation links being down further add credence to this theory?
  
  Yep, more likely intentional than just a technical issue with the website.
  
  I thought you were talking about the idea he was cleaning the servers from such content, but now I see you were actually saying he completely pulled the plug.
  So yes, that is a posibility, but not giving any sort of heads up its closing or anything is just weird even if that were the case, this would not constitute a larger admission than what he already did since he already had said he was defederating from an instance to avoid that kind of content. And to my knowledge, as long as they are moderating this stuff social media and the like dont put the owner in trouble, otherwise every ceo of twitter or facebook would have gone to prison a long time ago.
  
  Oh I'm not saying anything specifically. Purely speculation on my part. I just think it wouldn't be surprising to be completely spooked away even if not actually charged with anything.

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