FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    15 hours ago

    There’s a small, but extremely loud segment of the Mastodon userbase that seems to view presenting public posts in any manner that’s different from how a vanilla Mastodon server does as an invasion of their privacy. There have also been a few projects that raised reasonable concerns about privacy and moderation, but this page doesn’t seem to make a distinction.

    It appears to contain misinformation about FediFirehose, which ran client side and just showed the output of a public relay.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      14 hours ago

      It’s not nearly a small enough segment, really. It’s a fairly significant fraction of the pre-2022 population.

      They were excited to see people show up after Musk bought Twitter, but it was a very “now you’ll have to play by OUR rules!” kind of excitement.