I believe microca\.st is still run by Evan / E14N, but he's working on letting others take over administration of most of the pump network, since his other job takes all of his non-family time.
@clacke On Evan's smaller instances (e.g., *\.status\.net), it continued as an option until around the time he laid off all his employees. Unfortunately, I can't tell when (what year) that was. It also became a draw for self-hosters.
@nds Yes, you're missing the intermediate steps: (1) people must have been deceived, because they chose the wrong candidate. (2) it must have been fake news and stolen mail that fooled the voters.
No possibility that the #twin_parties choosing the two worst possible candidates was to blame. No, that can't be it.
On my little #Roku, I'm watching some episodes of #RailCasts on Mad Coder TV. I find myself wondering whether there are similar series available for !Python and #PHP frameworks (e.g., #Django, #TurboGears, #Symfony).
@alpacaherder There must be a threshhold for "I'm suddenly bleeding from every orifice" posts to account for that background level, else there'd be too many false alarms.
The biggest problem is that the servers aren't always maintained by person who are using these servers - otherwise they would know that the servers are failing. And it is really sad that - although the servers are having these problems once in a while - no admins seemed to have installed some watchdog that would notify them of the failing servers.
Question really is how good these servers are maintained at all concerning security updates.
@steve There are some servers (microca\.st, 1realtime\.net, and others) with multi-day downtime. Lots of your #pump.io subscribers wouldn't see your posts anyway.
The "not more than 12 characters" part is a sign that they may be storing passwords as plain text instead of hashes. You may wish to be a little careful about what information you give that organization access to.