soapbox more like nopebox because gleason fucking broke it in safari and then abandoned it
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anemone@ebiverse.social's status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:59:12 JST anemone -
竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:59:11 JST 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified: @anemone He abandoned Soapbox development? -
Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:59:11 JST Angry Sun @tk @anemone he loves Nostr now. † top dog :pedomustdie: likes this. -
Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:59:31 JST Angry Sun @graf @tk @J @anemone I believe it is too, I am only referring to the frontend component which he's still using. † top dog :pedomustdie: likes this. -
:btrfly: anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 (graf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:59:32 JST :btrfly: anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 @sun @J @tk @anemone rebased is absolutely abandoned. the pleroma fork he convinced me to use because it was always updated and whatever else -
Niggi Hardare 🏳️⚧️ (j@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:59:33 JST Niggi Hardare 🏳️⚧️ @sun @tk @anemone He’s technically developing the client still but I think he bit off more than he can chew by porting it to a whole different infrastructure.
As far as I can tell he keeps derailing to build random libraries and tools and usually doesn’t get much else done.
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Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:59:33 JST Angry Sun @J @tk @anemone I actually don't know why he hasn't fixed it because he still uses Soapbox for Nostr, via his Ditto project so it can't be "abandoned." -
brigrammer (brigrammer@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 13:01:30 JST brigrammer @graf @J @tk @anemone @sun so I once gandered gab's eye bleeding codebase and screamed, but this - why is this written in elixir and who the hell knows elixir? -
Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 13:01:30 JST Angry Sun @brigrammer @tk @J @anemone @graf It's great when you're used to it but doing it idiomatically has a learning curve. -
Niggi Hardare 🏳️⚧️ (j@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 13:01:31 JST Niggi Hardare 🏳️⚧️ @graf @tk @anemone @sun I can’t blame people for being mad at him. He thought he was going to bring everyone to NOSTR with him but it’s been 2 years and Ditto still barely works. No one uses it, and he didn’t make an easy way for people to move over.
Meanwhile the people who did use his software before Ditto are just SoL, which he doesn’t care about, bc they’re not the ones funding all these vacations he’s taking.
Congrats to the guy for making a living doing what he enjoys, I guess, but he didn’t pull through. No one on NOSTR uses his product and no one on Fedi can use his product, so that money is probably going to dry up in a couple years and he’ll be fucked.
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:btrfly: anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 (graf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 13:01:31 JST :btrfly: anime graf mays 🛰️🪐 @J @tk @anemone @sun I am wary to support him in future simply because he will go where the money is and if that means dropping entirely support and development for something he championed and convinced us to focus on something else without even so much as a warning that it would be depreciated I don't think he is somebody to back. when nostr dries up (it's drying up now and has been since launch) and the money runs out what will he focus on then if there's no money coming in?
I agree with you that you can't fault him. but he called me a coward when I told him I can't in good conscious peddle his wares (rebased+soapbox) in it's current iteration because it's over a half a year behind current pleroma and it's security patches. I disabled selling instances entirely and I told him this and I told him I terminated his affiliate because going forward we need to focus on pleroma+soapbox and pleroma+pleroma fe. it wasn't a discussion, I was just a coward for not continuing. I think that's probably what soured me on this the most.
tldr I love Alex and I can't fault him but he's left thousands of us quite literally in the dust for something that is on its way to be more vaporware than fedi was -
anemone@ebiverse.social's status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 13:02:05 JST anemone @sun@shitposter.world @brigrammer@poa.st @tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com @J@cawfee.club @graf@poa.st I would like elixir more if it was statically typed
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silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 01:12:06 JST silverpill @mischievoustomato @tk @graf @anemone @sun @J 100% committed. I'd say we're just getting started
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Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 01:12:15 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! @graf @anemone @sun @tk @J yup, i fell for it too, but now i'm on mitra and at least the mitra dev seems very committed to the fediverse still
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