# Discourse Hosting

**URL:** <https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/discourse-hosting/441>\
**Category:** Infrastructure\
**Tags:** announcement\
**Created:** [October 21, 2026, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/discourse-hosting/441 "2026-10-21T03:45:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![grim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discourse.imfreedom.org/grim/32/4_2.png) [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/discourse-hosting/441/1 "2026-10-21T03:45:14Z")

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Greetings Programs!

This post is the first new one from our new Discourse hosting from Discourse! They are now graciously hosting this instance pro-bono (for free) as part of their [Open Source](https://www.discourse.org/free) support.

This is awesome for a number of reasons, but the selfish ones are that it lightens my administrative load a bit which I can feed back into other things.

That said, this does come with a few changes to the site in general.

# Email

You may have already noticed that emails from this instance are coming from a sender of `notifications@imfreedom.discoursemail.com` so you may have to adjust some email filters.

Previously, emails came from `noreply@imfreedom.org` and were originated from `mail.wiktel.com`.

# Activity Pub

We’re dropping the activity pub support. This is something we’ve been considering for awhile and now seemed like the right time.

The activity pub posts from here haven’t been popular and for some reason they wouldn’t make it to `mastodon.social`. I never really looked into why this was happening, because it seems like I was the only one that ever noticed it.

Also posting the articles from [@pidgin@fosstodon.org](https://fosstodon.org/@pidgin) or [@grimmy@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@grimmy) tend to get much more engagement, so we’re just going to do that going forward.

# Closing

Everything else should be the same, but if you notice anything weird, please drop a note here!

And of course, show some love for Discourse for providing this hosting for us!

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**Author:** ![grim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discourse.imfreedom.org/grim/32/4_2.png) [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/discourse-hosting/441/2 "2026-10-21T18:21:35Z")

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Pinned on October 21, 2026, 6:21pm UTC