Going to mastodon.social and searching for 5teverin0@pxlmo.com in the search field, I see posts going back to August 21 just fine from there. So it's not clear to me what is not working?

Federation of post is not retroactive - if you search up yourself from another instance you should find your profile, but you might not see your old posts. If you follow yourself, all future posts will be federated.

Thanks for the response! I'm sorry to hear that a core contributor vanished like that. Hopefully (s)he's allright and just needed to delegate time differently. And as long as there's at least two of you who feel somewhat dedicated to the project, even if you cannot always be active, that's great. :)

It reminds me of the old proverb that if you want to go fast, walk alone, if you want to go far, walk together. If Mbin can continue at a sustainable pace, where you're not afraid to take time off when you need it, I have no doubt it can go far. :)

How do you feel about Mbin in that regard? Do you feel like development is in a healthy place, with not too much of a burden on any one person?

I guess similar situations as the one described here could occur, with an inherited code base and all it entails.

Yeah, very fair. I'm lucky enough that the things I use Mastodon for has more or less established communities there.

The federation of comments is a huge headache. Intuitively it makes no sense the way it's solved - if I go to the comment section, I don't want a bunch of it to be randomly hidden from me. It's something that just needs to be solved better, even though we'll always see slightly different things as not all content is equally welcome everywhere.

I'm happy Lemmy works better for you though! I think it might just be a better format for nerd stuff. I like Mastodon for many things, but this is where I go to embrace nerd stuff. Politics here are more insufferable than at the Mastodon instance I'm on though. ;)

Sad, but mostly awful that the project has gone down in such a messy way. That sounds like a tremendous personal load that was completely uncalled for.

Sounds like.. uncomfortable business? :)

More seriously though, couldn't a.gup.pe help with discoverability? Tag a larger group, and the post is automatically forwarded to a lot of servers and shown to a fair share of users.

But yeah, bring on a smaller fedi server for microblogging has obvious drawbacks that people tend to brush over. It does require more effort to become discovered.

Solarized dark looks great!

It's a poster design, not a logo. It doesn't need to be as instantly recognizable. Putting one or three other in the background would make it a lot less visually interesting.

Amazing!

The pace and responsiveness of development in PieFed is unlike anything I've seen before. It's a brilliant platform, thank you so much for developing it!

Thanks! Just checking it out quickly made me discover !films@fedi.video, which seems to be a great repository of public domain feature length movies from the old days. Wonderful! 🍿

I don't mind proprietary software - it seems it's what a lot of people want, and I simply won't use it.

Promoting proprietary software named "OpenSomething" should, however, be banned as false marketing.

There were some successful Twitter clients I think. TweetDeck was famous and ended up acquired by Twitter.