To be clear:

- I don't plan on shutting down toot.cafe. Ever.
- I don't plan on shutting down Pinafore. I'm happy to accept pull requests, and I may even tinker a bit as long as I find it fun.

I am just being honest and upfront about my feelings toward the fediverse these days.

To give more context: for me, Mastodon lost its luster when my wife stopped using it.

She was on "weird Mastodon." Her entire goal was to make funny jokes and boost and riff on other people's funny jokes. Mastodon for her was sheer joy.

She got driven off the platform by the replies. (She is a woman on the internet, after all.) Weird sexual innuendo, "well actually"s, and people not getting the joke. Plus the funny people left. It became un-fun for her.

I used to joke that I was guided by "wife-driven development" (WDD). She would complain about a UI issue in Pinafore, and I'd fix it.

I could tell she was using Mastodon because she was alternating between laughing and typing. I was helping to enable her joy! What a motivator!

When she left the platform, and asked me to delete her Mastodon instance (freedom.horse), the raison d'être of Pinafore died. That's why I largely stopped working on it.