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 Here's the local feed from another Wildebeest server: https://social.jasnell.me/public/local It features one message from 1 month ago, which says, "Tap tap tap. Is this thing on?" 🤣 I really don't think Cloudflare will be a threat to the Fediverse. At least, not any time soon. 10 comments
@darnell I think that's a pretty good assumption. I've read an interview about Wildebeest with Cloudflare's CTO, and he seemed incredibly clueless about Fediverse culture. It's funny, when Wildebeest was announced, there were a whole lot of tech bros who seemed really excited about it -- and pushed back against the notion that Wildebeest wasn't a good project. They claimed Wildebeest's vertical integration with Cloudflare would be a game changer. Well, where are those tech bros? And why aren't they using Wildebeest? Were they just being contrarians for the sake of being contrarian?  I think that launching without full portability suppressed enthusiasm. I would have started a single user instance, but I need an escape hatch. @mkarliner At first, I had a "let's reserve judgment and see what happens" perspective. But within a day, I realized that they weren't going to be good Fediverse citizens. @atomicpoet @freakinbox Just the name Wildebeest kind of gives away the whole FUD nature of the thing. |
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@atomicpoet This is interesting, but I wonder if it's because #Cloudflare did not take time to understand the #Fediverse culture.
Both #Medium & #Flipboard’s instance communities are far more active, but the leaders of each took the time to know the Fediverse culture (well, rather #Mastodon culture).