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.

  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Ah yes, the “federated” platform where most people don’t want their posts to be visible to anyone outside the platform.