This is misinfo so blatant that I have to respond publicly:

requiring .NET 8, so no possibility to run it with Mono

The mono developers got hired by Microsoft. The mono project and the dotnet project are under the same MIT license. The mono README clearly states that the mono project is a part of the .NET foundation, and explicitly recommends people to move to the microsoft fork of it.

adapted to run in IIS, something that should be deprecated

This was done as a joke. It's run on IIS by one person (me, the lead maintainer), and I've not even updated it to the latest version. The only thing that instance does is respond to pings with a funny reply. Our documentation clearly states that it's not recommended or supported.

promoting and supported by JetBrains, this feels fluffing corporate like with lot of development projects recommending to use Discord

Our "promotion" of JetBrains is limited to a one line comment at the bottom of the README. Promoting them is not a requirement of the open source license they gave us. I placed the shoutout there because I've been using (paying for!) their tools for a decade and believe that their .NET IDE (Rider) is genuinely superior to any other IDE or editor + language server on the market.

running YouTrack (JetBrains tool) to organize issues, again this feels like developers running Jira in corporations

We specifically do not use discord because we believe in using open-source alternatives where they exist. This is why we run a Zulip. We switched to YouTrack not because we prefer closed-source software (on the contrary!), but because we tried & failed to find an open source alternative that fits our needs.


Please think before you post misinfo in the future. Thank you, on behalf of the Iceshrimp team. We get nothing out of this. We don't even accept donations other than for healthcare expenses of a core team member who doesn't have health insurance. We don't advertise our project, either.