Just a headsup for any server admins running Firefish, apparently it is no longer being maintained. One of the core developers of Firefish has written about the situation in the link provided.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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    10 months ago

    The only people who need to know are instance admins choosing what platform to run.

    And how are admins supposed to know which the week’s hottest fork is? If I google for Sharkey, the results I get are people with that Irish surname, most notably Feargal Sharkey. When I google for Hajkey, https://git.hajkey.org/hajkey comes up which doesn’t even open in a web browser (perhaps the web server is down and now only a git client can access it, no idea and how would I get an idea about that…). Googling for Ice Shrimp mostly results in recipes and photos on shrimp on crushed ice.

    I start to understand why everyone rather makes a new fork: Because nobody knows of other projects to contribute to.

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      10 months ago

      Admins know which forks are which and what benefit they bring because they’re active in spaces talking about this stuff, and often talking to other admins.

      A first time admin with no real Fediverse experience won’t end up running any of those forks.

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          10 months ago

          My apologies. I incorrectly assumed you were involved in this conversation in good faith, rather than looking for an axe to grind.