@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
@tezoatlipoca @technically_good @tod It's great to see Canadian platforms, but a single centralized offering has echoes of Bluesky...
@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)

@alexblock
Yup. No federation==no way.

Fool me once…

@tezoatlipoca @technically_good @tod

@tezoatlipoca @technically_good @alexblock I believe the developer hand coded the whole thing himself.