This actually sounds pretty similar to what happened to feddit.de - the former main admin/infrastructure owner stopped being active, and eventually the active admins had to move to feddit.org when technical difficulties sprang up that they couldn’t solve with their access level.
Only difference is that feddit.de didn’t go up for auction, it’s still running just with minimal user interaction. Apparently it was somewhat recently deactivated.
BTW, human tissue might not be targeted by a bacteriophage virus, but our gut is filled with beneficial bacteria. This is why people get the runs from antibiotica and why there’s shit transplants.
Most viruses are probably not surviving the acid bath that is our stomach, though.
That seems … unlikely. People love corporate propaganda, why would they leave their propaganda platforms? At best, they’d leave for some other bullshit platform, just look at how they are leaving xitter for bluesky instead of mastodon.
Oh, that’s new. Was definitely still running last time I checked 1 or 2 months ago.