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Catodon.social and Catodon closing down

I thought whether I should post this from @catodon 's account but I'd like to speak on a more personal level, since it's now just me in Catodon anyway. So, I'm pretty sad about it coming to this, but what can you do - things like that can happen in group projects. We started as a fork of Firefish, then rebased to Iceshrimp, and then we froze development waiting for Iceshrimp's C# rewrite to be completed, since the announced timeline at the time said that the first stable should be out before the end of 2024. This target wasn't met - of course, they don't owe anyone anything, I'm just describing what happened. Combined with the bitter aftertaste my involvement in Iceshrimp left to me, it's not a project I would like for Catodon to rely on. If Catodon was to continue, I would like it to be, or at least start off as, a more minimalistic soft fork of Sharkey, without the local-only features etc.

However, at this point all devs who were interested in Catodon have moved on to other things, so it's not feasible for the project (and the server, which was mostly meant as a showcase for the software) to continue. On November 10 the domain name expires, and I'm thinking of not renewing it.

If any of the existing members wants to maintain the server, either as an Iceshrimp or as a Sharkey instance, drop me a line, if you're serious then I'd happily transfer the domain and vps so that the server can stay online.

I apologize to anyone affected by this, I hope you don't find it difficult to find a new home. I have to say that we never accepted donations, so we practically run a free service for two years. Wish it could go on, but I simply don't have the technical knowledge to run the server responsibly. I am not a sysadmin or a dev, and it's not something I feel very drawn to - I'm sure ADHD also hasn't helped me to learn more about running a server. I'm ok with it.

So there you have it, in around 50 days catodon.social goes kaput, unless something improbable happens - like if someone wants to take the responsibility of running the server, or if a javascript dev thinks that a scaled-down version of Sharkey sounds like something they'd like to try.

Thanks for being part of this, I really believe this could have been a fun project - I loved being part of Firefish and I wanted a chance to do some things better this time, but it seems that it wasn't meant to be! Oh, well =)

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Jueves 27 de febrero de 2025, 11:20 p.m. UTC-6
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