In the face of public backlash, a Fediverse developer is forced to shut down a hobby project after people misunderstood what it did.

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.

  • Val@lemm.ee
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    4 minutes ago

    Was inspired by the article to draw this. Sadly It doesn’t make much sense without context.

    You do not own the words you say

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    There’s some people primarily on mastodon who are really the worst type of online scolds. They’ve driven scores of developers away with these antics and are then wondering why people preferred bluesky.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      It’s profoundly depressing. Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects, and we’re all kind of just scraping by at the moment. Loads of people end up investing years and years of labor for free, only to get toxic interactions in return.