Tod Maffin 🇨🇦Mar 2

UPDATE: Yesterday, I posted about hey.cafe — a fully Canadian alternative to Facebook.

They got SWAMPED with people. More than doubled their user base in a few hours.

Doors are still open, but they're capping new accounts at 250 per hour. So if you get a "we're full right now" message, just try again in a couple of hours. 🙂

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@tod Is this built on Frendica? /can it federate?
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@alexblock @tod

Came here to ask those exact questions! 😄

Had a look around the About sections but wasn't able to find details - what's this built on?

Mar 2 at 5:40pmWeb
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@technically_good @tod I see the code is on GitHub, but a platform that doesn't support ActivityPub and can't federate isn't so super great... Last year I thought of spinning up a Frendica instance, but never got around to it...
Show threadstux⚡️Mar 2
@technically_good @alexblock @tod Code seems to be hosted here: https://gitlab.com/heycafe
Hey.Cafe · GitLab

Hey.Café is a free and open social network with out ads, or algorithms.

GitLab
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 2

@technically_good @alexblock @tod

I poked thru the about-ish stuff panel at the bottom-left of the Explore page and it appears to be a completely new thing: https://gitlab.com/heycafe

If its a fork of anything existant, its not apparent.

Hey.Cafe · GitLab

Hey.Café is a free and open social network with out ads, or algorithms.

GitLab
Show thread@AlexBlock has movedMar 2
@tezoatlipoca @technically_good @tod It's great to see Canadian platforms, but a single centralized offering has echoes of Bluesky...
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 2
@alexblock @technically_good @tod yeah, like... uh.. what was that early fork of Mastodon that is a single, non-federating instance? can't remember what it was called.
This, while a good idea and Im glad this flagship instance is blowing up, will wind up the same unless he implements federation (or atproto.. ugh)
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@alexblock
Yup. No federation==no way.

Fool me once…

@tezoatlipoca @technically_good @tod

Show threadTod Maffin 🇨🇦Mar 3
@tezoatlipoca @technically_good @alexblock I believe the developer hand coded the whole thing himself.