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Open on akko.erincandescent.net Erin 💽✨Personal infoAbout:
immigrant | they/them | software engineer in card payments
liker of ISO 8583, the 8051, ASN.1 and EBCDIC. I wrote the ActivityPub initial draft, so this social network is in some way my fault. Instance admin, queer.af (2018-07 - 2024-04, RIP)
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Between FediForum and now the Social Web Foundation I'm very tired of seeing these intensely corporate initiatives in this space where the majority of projects are entirely volunteer (or grant supported) efforts
This is some fairly exciting news - better search, especially for small instances, will be very useful. And a reminder to people worried about privacy impacts of such a system: you can already gather a very complete feed of all public posts in the fediverse just by htting up mastodon.social’s Federated Timeline API. Hello fellow admins! It would help users migrating from queer.af if you would temporarily add the following to /etc/hosts:
The domain was suspended this morning without warning. For users attempting to migrate, there’s an alias domain for the UI setup at: https://queer-af.alioth.systems Thank you everyone for flying queer.af; sorry for the abrupt end, but it was out of my control, and you were all (hopefully) aware of this possibility anwyay. |