panos
The time has come and I'm beyond excited 😁

We just opened registrations on catodon.rocks.

I know that Catodon created a lot of expectations when Firefish fell apart, and I'm sure many of you were disappointed to see it not going anywhere for a long time. This time I am doing it on my own, so things will happen the way they should have. And, although you can now check it out for youselves, I will say this: I firmly believe that it's better, on every level, than Firefish ever was. I was in both projects, I love them both, but Catodon combines the best features of Firefish and Sharkey, while also being very debloated, being much more comprehensible, and adding actually useful stuff - and I have more plans for the future.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the UX of Catodon, and see how we can improve it further! Let's create the fedi experience we deserve =)

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#Catodon #Fediverse #Firefish #Sharkey

RE: https://catodon.rocks/notes/ajo1s763f05z0002
Mar 10 at 10:55amWeb
Show threadAlynMar 10
@panos Fantastic, well done! I realise this is early days, but probably best to think about early - do you have a succession plan in place for when this gets too much to handle? I think that's one of the reasons FF fell apart - one person with too tight a grip on development until too late.
I migrated from [something]key, to Firefish, to Iceshrimp for the instance I run (not this one), but I'd like to have a look at Catodon now - I have a feeling I signed up to a previous version...
Show threadpanosMar 10
@alyn the plan is to keep up with Sharkey - even though there are many differences on the UI, I've kept the backend changes to a minimum. One way or another, I intend to maintain this - I've been trying to make this happen since 2023, and our greek community server now runs on it, which is kind of a lifetime project for me =)
Show threadAlynMar 10
And now I have found out directly from the controller of the project that they used #GenAI to modify the code of Misskey because they didn't understand it enough to remove items from the UI.
I can't support a project like that. If the developer doesn't understand what's being changed and how, I think that's a problem.
I'm not fighting against the project, I'm just withdrawing my support for it.
Show thread🅘🅢🅜🅐🄹Mar 12
@alyn I don't get it. It's like requiring a basic mechanic also be a car engineer to fix your car. Before GenAI it wasn't uncommon for people working or maintaining software projects to not know much about it unless it was the creator of the software itself. But now you can know how things work because GenAI is like having a senior developer on call to ask questions telling you what's what. You know, the opposite of not knowing what your doing. Specially if the changes are minimum or superficial.
Show threadStephan* :birders:Mar 10
@panos congrats with this milestone. 🥳