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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.

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[-] korendian@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Shit like this is why I have a very dim hope for the fediverse ever expanding into the mainstream.

[-] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days 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_sardley@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days 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.

[-] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days 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.world 12 points 2 days 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.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days 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.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

Mastodon and witchunts, name a more iconic duo.

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

If it's what it sounds like, I understand it and would want it shut down too.

[-] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 19 points 2 days ago

FediOnFire was a simple, public-facing project designed to showcase a firehose of public statuses across the network.

For... showing public comments on a live feed? How nefarious. /s

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago

It was literally an alternative UI for the https://mastodon.social/public feed

this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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