Ironically, still some issues with the federation, so we can see them but they can't see us. We're in the walls.
BreadDog
Ernest might have also gotten up more servers to handle the load, noticing that cloudflare is off and we are federating again (this is a beehaw thread)
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/173
Existing issue on the topic. If anybody is looking to contribute, this would make a great first issue to pick up.
Ohh, I like zines as a shortened version
The true fear is when everything passes locally and then suddenly fails on the CICD pipeline.
I'm just waiting for the real Streisand effect to kick in if they ban /r/redditalternatives
There are so many ways they could have made it viable. Like comically easy. But that was never what they were interested in. The thing that they aren't willing to just come out and say, is that their own app is built to generate advertising revenue. They have absolutely zero interest in fostering a 3rd party community, and the only concessions they are going to make are for things that actually have a chance at saving the spending money (i.e. make sure the free labor they get from moderators stays and make sure other people deal with questions like accessibility).
I'm sure there are some people purchasing those, but you also get some for free. Looks like I have 800 worth I could give out.
So business as usual for reddit
Steve actually doubled down on the blackmail accusation when we have to recording, my god this is some juicy drama.
There is traction, and in fact already a fix in review.