Just a headsup for any server admins running Firefish, apparently it is no longer being maintained. One of the core developers of Firefish has written about the situation in the link provided.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

i hope instances can come up with a more standardized methods of control that dont leave all the keys in a single humans hands

Yeah like we could have a shared legal entity, say a corporation, controlling the servers 🤔 And they could instead of a single decisionmaker have a board. 🤔

Jokes aside, wouldn't this go against the federated idea? anyone can go and roll their own instance. Or take it down. Control is in the user's (of the software, that is, the instance owners) hands!

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i did seem to conflate the software with the instance... but then, so do a lot of developers it seems.

its not that hard to have a small group of people instead of a single human manage a project. mbin is a community fork of kbin for these reasons.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Another example of this is what happened with KeePass, then KeePassX, which gave us KeePassXC. Went from single Dev to single Dev to group of devs that were serious about the ecosystem.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah like we could have a shared legal entity, say a corporation,

You mispelt coöperative.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 6 months ago

Even at its smallest form, a federated instance hosting a community likely needs more than one person acting as admin and mod. It may not be a for profit corporation, but there needs to be some kind of collective organization.