Like what? All I can see is copy and paste blog spam.

Sometimes on horseback, sometimes not.

Archers

It has a soft paywall.

I think the common practice is to link to the original in the URL bar and then use the body text to do paywall/loginwall removals.

Nothing screams “Workstation” louder than Reddit Mobile.

Fuck Hyprland, its developers, and its asshole community. Context: https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

Yast on openSUSE does this and is maintained.

Woopty doo you can’t see a profile yet they’re raking in every thread.

Just like Google, Microsoft Bing, and many others do with all web content as well. Good luck deferating from web crawlers.

Most are just repackagings of Debian and Ubuntu, not actual forks.

So when does it count?

When it actually works, duh.

https://lemmy.world/u/zuck@threads.net doesn’t display Zuckerberg’s Threads profile.

It does, just only with a few users. Been under rock?

Private pre-alpha tests with a non-public self-hosted (presumably Mastodon) instance doesn’t count. Threads doesn’t federate with the fediverse right now.

Admins know which forks are which

Sure…

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.

there’s a core reason why I’m using Firefish at the moment, namely the ability to actually import my old posts from Mastodon.

Do you know if the Misskey maintainers are actively refusing that feature or has it just never been proposed in a pull request?

In this case, we don’t know what’s going on in the original project owner’s life right now.

I had a quick look at the repository and the last commit was three weeks ago: https://git.joinfirefish.org/firefish/firefish/-/commit/db604b8f466e826fd8c93d3519898c8ab236a2ed

Freaking out over three weeks of silence during Christmas season is so weird.

ice shrimp, Hajkey, Calckey, Sharkey

Wait, what? How is anybody supposed to keep up with so many forks? Why does everyone and their mom rather make their own fork than to work together? What’s even the problem with Misskey to begin with?

so many instances in the fediverse are still federated with Threads

Threads doesn’t support federation currently, so nobody is federated with Threads at all.

Calling defederating Threads a “panic kneejerk reaction” is being very ignorant about who they are and what they do.

What they do is not to federate with anything at all because that feature isn’t even implemented on their end.

They are also already federated with threads.

That’s impossible because right now Threads doesn’t even support federation.

Meanwhile the original software of which Calckey/Firefish was forked from, Misskey, continues along nicely: https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey