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Public Firehose Project Shutters After Backlash (wedistribute.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It's profoundly depressing. Developers are the lifeblood of open source projects, and we're all kind of just scraping by at the moment. Loads of people end up investing years and years of labor for free, only to get toxic interactions in return.