<p>Catodon.social and Catodon closing down<br><br>I thought whether I should post this from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://catodon.social/@catodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>catodon</span></a></span> 's account but I'd like to speak on a more personal level, since it's now just me in Catodon anyway. So, I'm pretty sad about it coming to this, but what can you do - things like that can happen in group projects. We started as a fork of Firefish, then rebased to Iceshrimp, and then we froze development waiting for Iceshrimp's C# rewrite to be completed, since the announced timeline at the time said that the first stable should be out before the end of 2024. This target wasn't met - of course, they don't owe anyone anything, I'm just describing what happened. Combined with the bitter aftertaste my involvement in Iceshrimp left to me, it's not a project I would like for Catodon to rely on. If Catodon was to continue, I would like it to be, or at least start off as, a more minimalistic soft fork of Sharkey, without the local-only features etc.<br><br>However, at this point all devs who were interested in Catodon have moved on to other things, so it's not feasible for the project (and the server, which was mostly meant as a showcase for the software) to continue. On November 10 the domain name expires, and I'm thinking of not renewing it.<br><br>If any of the existing members wants to maintain the server, either as an Iceshrimp or as a Sharkey instance, drop me a line, if you're serious then I'd happily transfer the domain and vps so that the server can stay online.<br><br>I apologize to anyone affected by this, I hope you don't find it difficult to find a new home. I have to say that we never accepted donations, so we practically run a free service for two years. Wish it could go on, but I simply don't have the technical knowledge to run the server responsibly. I am not a sysadmin or a dev, and it's not something I feel very drawn to - I'm sure ADHD also hasn't helped me to learn more about running a server. I'm ok with it.<br><br>So there you have it, in around 50 days catodon.social goes kaput, unless something improbable happens - like if someone wants to take the responsibility of running the server, or if a javascript dev thinks that a scaled-down version of Sharkey sounds like something they'd like to try.<br><br>Thanks for being part of this, I really believe this could have been a fun project - I loved being part of Firefish and I wanted a chance to do some things better this time, but it seems that it wasn't meant to be! Oh, well =)<br><br><a href="/tags/catodon/" rel="tag">#Catodon</a></p>
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<p>For anyone interested in Catodon, I wrote a short update on our repo: <a href="https://codeberg.org/catodon/catodon/issues/184" rel="nofollow">codeberg.org/catodon/catodon/issues/184</a><br><a href="/tags/catodon/" rel="tag">#Catodon</a></p>
<p>That's it, I've practically finished with the first release of Catodon, I want to go through a few details later today, then I'll start setting up a public server so that you can all see what I've been working on non-stop for the past couple of months. I'm extremely happy with the result and I think you'll like it.<br><br>I will probably launch the server alongside the first RC for the stable release. This week!<br><br><a href="/tags/catodon/" rel="tag">#Catodon</a></p>
<p>The time has come and I'm beyond excited 😁<br><br>We just opened registrations on <a href="https://catodon.rocks/" rel="nofollow">catodon.rocks</a>.<br><br>I know that Catodon created a lot of expectations when Firefish fell apart, and I'm sure many of you were disappointed to see it not going anywhere for a long time. This time I am doing it on my own, so things will happen the way they should have. And, although you can now check it out for youselves, I will say this: I firmly believe that it's better, on every level, than Firefish ever was. I was in both projects, I love them both, but Catodon combines the best features of Firefish and Sharkey, while also being very debloated, being much more comprehensible, and adding actually useful stuff - and I have more plans for the future.<br><br>I'd love to hear your feedback on the UX of Catodon, and see how we can improve it further! Let's create the fedi experience we deserve =)<br><br><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/catodon.rocks/catodon.png" class="emoji" alt=":catodon:" title=":catodon:"><br><a href="/tags/catodon/" rel="tag">#Catodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/firefish/" rel="tag">#Firefish</a> <a href="/tags/sharkey/" rel="tag">#Sharkey</a><br><br>RE: <a href="https://catodon.rocks/notes/ajo1s763f05z0002" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="catodon.rocks/notes/ajo1s763f05z0002"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">catodon.rocks/notes/ajo1s763f0</span><span class="invisible">5z0002</span></a></p>
<p>And for my next trick: Catodon forums.<br>Yep. I'm bringing the threadiverse to the misskeyverse.<br><br><a href="/tags/catodon/" rel="tag">#catodon</a> <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#lemmy</a> <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#piefed</a> <a href="/tags/nodebb/" rel="tag">#nodebb</a> <a href="/tags/threadiverse/" rel="tag">#threadiverse</a></p>
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