(streams) vs Firefish vs /kbin; CW: swearing, potential eye contact
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The Fediverse, late summer of 2024:
The streams repository has no official maintainer, and it doesn't look like it'll have a new one anytime soon.
Firefish had its death announced by its maintainer.
And /kbin was already killed by its maintainer without warning.
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Explanation:
The image hints at Fediverse server software whose key maintainer has largely or entirely quit. It is not based on a specific template, but it makes use of the meme phrases "
That's cute" and "
Bitch, please".
(streams)
The top logo is that of
the streams repository. It contains an intentionally nameless, brandless, public-domain-licensed Fediverse server application, one of the most advanced Fediverse server applications with the one most advanced set of permission controls. It was created in October, 2021, as a fork of one of three forks of a fork of probably another fork of Hubzilla, the all-purpose Swiss army knife of the Fediverse, which itself is a fork of maybe another fork of Friendica, a decentralised Facebook alternative from as early as 2010. All of this, including the forks in-between, was created by one man, Mike Macgirvin.
On August 31st, Mike announced in a private post only sent to his connections that the streams repository is basically up for grabs because he quit maintaining Fediverse software. Just like with Friendica in 2012 and Hubzilla in 2018, he wanted the community to take over.
But what was easy for Friendica and Hubzilla was expected to be difficult for (streams), as the nameless application is semi-officially called. That's because it only has a few dozen active users, none of which has both the skills and the time to take over as the new main maintainer. It didn't help that Mike dropped it in the middle of the transformation process towards nomadic identity via ActivityPub, in such a buggy state that inviting more people to (streams) is pretty much out of question.
Firefish
The Firefish logo in the middle stands for
the official announcement of Firefish's end of life. Naskya, who rather involuntarily ended up the sole new Firefish developer after original forker and maintainer Kainoa had no time for it anymore, declared not having the energy to continue with the project. Firefish's code repository was put into maintenance mode which means that it won't get any new features anymore. At the end of 2024, support will end. And at the end of February, 2025, both
the code repository and
the official lighthouse instance will be shut down which will practically mark the official end of Firefish.
/kbin
The /kbin logo at the bottom stands for the even earlier death of /kbin. The ambitious Reddit alternative had only had one sole developer from the very beginning. Ernest Wisniewski never had enough time to make /kbin mature because /kbin was rushed by former Redditors at a very early alpha stage. At the same time, he didn't let anyone help him. Apparently, everything eventually became too much for him.
Nine months ago already, he quit maintaining /kbin altogether. This summer, he shut down both
the official /kbin website and
the official lighthouse instance which made up the huge majority of /kbin's size, both with no announcement. There has never been any official statement by Ernest. Some information can be found in
this post on Lemmy. What's left are a few third-party /kbin instances whose admins may not even have noticed that /kbin is dead.
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