lumpen 🍉 III (@scrum)

@jdp23 very cool, yeah if AT does manage to break away and become something independent of Bluesky i'll have to change my tune, we'll see

also no reason why a platform can't just support multiple protocols, hell RSS/Atom is just fine for a lot of cases, especially bots, Diaspora prot is janky but very wholesome communities on there i wish i could access here

and yeah the social dynamics of building and maintaining an open source project where talented people are willing to contributed their valuable skills for free is very complicated, i certainly don't have those social skills... in that other thread i was maybe a little unfair to furries, i hope no one took it personally, i think that community aspect is what drives a lot of foss projects so that's probably why these niches are over represented on fedi because these platforms have been built by and for their communties and that's beautiful

Thanks for telling me about Forte, apparrently Streams is "public domain software" as was explained by one dev, the name itself is just a placeholder, they just put it out there with the hopes other people would pick it up and run with it, which I guess is what Forte is, Mike's fork. When i get a VPS i'm seriously considering running an instance. I would prefer just a bare bones php nomad implementation along similar lines to activityphp that i could drop into my own MVC build on top of, but realistically, writing a new frontend for Forte or and maybe some addons would be save me a lot of work.