In the face of public backlash, a Fediverse developer is forced to shut down a hobby project after people misunderstood what it did.

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.

  • Jake FarmEnglish
    34•4 months ago

    News flash you dwebs, if it is on ActivityPub, it is not private, there is no encryption.

  • Jake FarmEnglish
    24•4 months ago

    If you read the article, it really makes the fediverse look like a shithole. Someone on here uploaded csam to take down a project they didnt like. Wtf?

    • KichaeEnglish
      5•4 months ago

      The fediverse is “the internet”. Like, in conception, it’s taking everything that’s publicly available on the internet and making it auto-mirrorable-at-request.

      So yes, on some fundamental level, it’s a shit show. Because the internet is the worst of us.

    • db0English
      0•4 months ago

      Not really uploaded. There’s plenty of mastodon instances which have open distribution of CSAM or Loli (A look at our blocklist on fediseer can show just how many there are. Non-risky link btw.). All one needed to do is use that service to retrieve one of those posts using its own search function.

  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖English
    19•4 months ago

    That’s fucking disappointing. Are mastodon users stupid or just on a which hunt? That poor dev worked hard to develop a project where they did something they though was cool, invested part of themselves in the project, then took the risk to release it publicly because they where proud of their work. And what fucking happens. They get shit on for no reason whatsoever.

    Ik what its like I made !news_summary@lemmy.dbzer0.com put it in its own community so people didn’t have to engage if they didn’t want to. The amount of hate I got (from people who didn’t understand the tech) saying it would do things it couldn’t or that it was an ai grift (it has a fucking agpl licence).

    Fuck everyone hating on this poor dev I’m gonna go send em some love on mastodon so they don’t just give up on programming or sharing their art with the world.

    • db0English
      7•4 months ago

      The mindless GenAI hate is really off the scales on mastodon. I run a FOSS GenAI volunteer service and was trying to join a popular non-profit on mastodon and the non-profit itself got bulled so much that they dropped us. Some of those scolds even tried to bully me because I run the Fediseer.

      Fortunately the lemmy crowd is a bit more reasonable with integrations like these.

      • mateGEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        It really feels like people are aggressively hostile to things they don’t like or think are bad. The time and energy spent on hating against a FOSS project is just absurd.

  • breadguyyyyyyyyyEnglish
    13•4 months ago

    I don’t like Gleason or nostr but this happened with mostr too lol, people were getting real up in arms accusing it of duplicating accounts, going so far as to DMCA the project. but that’s literally how federation works, any account or post that’s federated is cached on the instance lol. it’s like people don’t realize that their public posts are public

    • Yardy SardleyEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      To be totally fair, nostr’s whole thing is that users can delete all of their federated data if they want to, so it makes sense if they are upset about having their data copied to a place they can’t control.

      Not sure how realistic that is with the data being publicly accessible via the web, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the they have some kind of license that gives the dmca request the ability to hold a nonzero amount of water. Then again, I wouldn’t be suprised if completely fails, either.

      • breadguyyyyyyyyyEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        nostr relays can comply with delete requests or not, same with fedi servers. pretty sure they all do though and relays don’t share posts with each other. there’s a couple of crawler services like nostr.band and noswhere for search and indexing, but if you delete your fedi post or don’t post publicly it should be gone from mostr

  • @Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•4 months ago

    There’s a small, but extremely loud segment of the Mastodon userbase that seems to view presenting public posts in any manner that’s different from how a vanilla Mastodon server does as an invasion of their privacy. There have also been a few projects that raised reasonable concerns about privacy and moderation, but this page doesn’t seem to make a distinction.

    It appears to contain misinformation about FediFirehose, which ran client side and just showed the output of a public relay.

    • KichaeEnglish
      7•4 months ago

      It’s not nearly a small enough segment, really. It’s a fairly significant fraction of the pre-2022 population.

      They were excited to see people show up after Musk bought Twitter, but it was a very “now you’ll have to play by OUR rules!” kind of excitement.