Bummer.
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Bummer. I've seen a few posts here and there talking about #firefish shutting down over the past few months, but now it's official.
"Firefish will enter maintenance mode"
Firefish (@firefish)
**Announcement: Firefish will enter maintenance mode** For those who have been supporting Firefish and me, I can’t thank you enough. But today, I have to make an announcement of my very difficult decision: As of today’s release, Firefish will enter maintenance mode and reach end-of-support at the end of the year. The main reasons for this are as follows. In February, Kainoa suddenly transferred the ownership of Firefish to me. This transition came without prior notice, which took me aback. I still wish Kainoa had consulted with me in advance. At that time, some people were already saying that “Firefish is coming back”, making it challenging to address the situation. Also, since there were several hundred active Firefish servers at that point, I could not suddenly discontinue the project, so I took over the project unwillingly. Over the past seven months, I have been maintaining Firefish alone. All other former maintainers have left, leaving me solely responsible for managing issues, reviewing merge requests, testing, and releasing new versions. This situation has had a significant impact on my personal life. Frankly speaking, there are numerous bugs and questionable logic in the current Firefish codebase. While I attempted to fix them, balancing this work with my personal life made it clear that it would take ages, and I’ve started thinking that I can’t manage this project in the long run. Additionally, vulnerabilities have been reported approximately once a month. Addressing vulnerabilities, communicating privately with reporters, and testing fixes have proven overwhelming and unsustainable. Moreover, a certain percentage of users have made insulting comments, which have severely affected my mental well-being and made me fearful of opening social media apps. I will do my best to refund the donations made to Firefish via OpenCollective, but that’s not guaranteed. `firefish.dev` and `info.firefish.dev` will remain operational until the end of February 2025, after which they will return a 410 Gone status. Server admins may downgrade Firefish to version `20240206`/`1.0.5-rc` and migrate to another *key variant, or may fork Firefish to maintain. Downgrade instructions: https://firefish.dev/firefish/firefish/-/blob/downgrade/docs/downgrade.md Thanks, naskya
Firefish (info.firefish.dev)
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
For folks not familiar: https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Firefish%3F
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Jasdemi :fediverse:replied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Jasdemi :fediverse: last edited by [email protected]
@jasdemi Seeing Mastodon, the one big prominent fediverse platform only being able to pay 2-3 full-time developers, I can imagine the struggle of working on a lesser known one.
Hopefully folks will migrate to new homes across the fediverse.
Really shows the importance of funding the work we enjoy and value.
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DJM (freelance for hire)replied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan Had a Calckey => Firefish account, then deleted it many months ago (probably before the latest maintainer took it). The environment around the project at the time was really generating bad feelings...
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to DJM (freelance for hire) last edited by
@cybeardjm Hmm, yeah, I think I might've caught some bits and pieces, but haven't really been following closely.
Still, it's a shame. Onto better things now.
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
In the light of this news, it's even more important to support other fediverse platforms and server admins and moderators.
#fediverse #FediverseSustainability
Brian Hawthorne (@[email protected])
I’m guessing there must be people out there who both have the necessary skills and time, and would love to help @[email protected] build Pixelfed. Boosting to help this get to the right people, whoever you are. https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113084521296319026
Infosec Exchange (infosec.exchange)
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