stop.voring.me (one of the largest Firefish/Calckey instances) has been down for a week and barely anyone is talking about it (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by RustyOperator@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Does anyone have any ideas on how we can get in contact with Kainoa or someone, because I really want to move instances and keep all of my account stuff.

The server has been going down time and time again and I just want to move to something that isn't as likely to just not exist one day out of the blue.

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[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago

So it’s run by the firefish lead dev, and it’s been well known for a while that they don’t have much time anymore for Fedi stuff, at least not as a full time commitment. I think/suspect they were getting paid by some people before but that’s now run dry. So they’re working full time and studying it seems.

Firefish dev seems to have slowed and their flagship instance is dying a slow but sure death.

To anyone who knows this it’s not surprise that stop.voring.me is down too.

I’d recommend you move one and forget about the instance. Maybe later you can pull your stuff out, but for now that account is stranded on a dead instance and dying platform.

[-] testing@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

@maegul
it's sad to see that, and all of it was foreseeable in april 2023 already ...

@RustyOperator

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yea ... I've said it elsewhere ... in hindsight it's fairly clear to me that some people with an excessive marketing and growth mindset and their own agendas got involved with Firefish/calckey and burnt it out from the inside with excessive hype and ambition rather than letting it grow organically.

From what I've gathered, that's more or less what happened.

[-] testing@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

@maegul
when i saw all that happening, i was sure that firefish won't swim, but die soon > the rebranding happened behind closed doors, only to claim that ff was a community project > then, april got kicked out of the dev team, and there was no one else at firefish anymore to do serious backend work > firefish felt like a sect, consumed by its own hype

@RustyOperator