Catodon.social and Catodon closing down
I thought whether I should post this from @catodon '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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 =)
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For anyone interested in Catodon, I wrote a short update on our repo: codeberg.org/catodon/catodon/issues/184
#Catodon
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.
I will probably launch the server alongside the first RC for the stable release. This week!
#Catodon
The time has come and I'm beyond excited 😁
We just opened registrations on catodon.rocks.
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.
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 =)
#Catodon #Fediverse #Firefish #Sharkey
RE: https://catodon.rocks/notes/ajo1s763f05z0002
I see #catodon moved to #codefloe
https://codefloe.com/catodon/catodon
Following Codeberg's recent decisions about projects developed with the use of AI, we have moved to @codefloe . The new Catodon repo url is https://codefloe.com/catodon/catodon - please update your git remote!
We are thankful to Codeberg for hosting us so far, but we will not apologize for utilizing one of the biggest technological breakthroughs in decades for the development of open source software, nor for spending countless hours in order to create a great fediverse platform with unique features, bridging the microblogging and the threadiverse sides of fedi. If you need to judge the project, you can judge it by the end result instead of the tools we use for development.
We prefer not to be judged for just doing what we love and making it available to everyone for free, though, so we're excited to join Codefloe!
#catodon #codefloe #codeberg
Catodon repo moved to Codefloe
I am adding an Instagram-inspired Media timeline, based on Home (Following), and I'm wondering what would people want from something like that. For example, should it include only photos and videos, or audio files too? And anything else I might be missing (never used Instagram tbh). Thanks!
#catodon
What would you like to see in a "Media" timeline?
#appy added and #catodon updated
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience
And for my next trick: Catodon forums.
Yep. I'm bringing the threadiverse to the misskeyverse.
#catodon #lemmy #piefed #nodebb #threadiverse
I'm back from vacation and have started fully working again towards the next Catodon stable release, which will probably be 26.9.0 - I decided to add a couple more major features, plus there are a few bugs reported on codefloe, so I don't think we can make it for August.
BUT! Catodon.rocks now has multi server accounts - meaning you can not only switch between local catodon accounts, but you can also connect your Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, Friendica etc accounts and use them through Catodon's UI! There is also a masonry layout added for the new Media timeline, based on the feedback we got in this post. Both features include significant changes and there will definitely be some bugs, so please test them and report anything that seems off to you or you think could be improved. It will take a little time to iron everything out, but 26.9.0 will be a huge step for Catodon!
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Catodon development update 22/8/2026