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James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk · Aug 03, 2026
Boosted by Daniel Supernault @dansup@mastodon.social

This morning in #Amiko, the community #RailsFork:

  1. 138 people now in the Matrix space at https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org

  2. We've had success in running some major #Rails apps on experimental forked versions of both rails and railties, and at running our equivalent of rails new.

  3. We're building community governance using Sociocracy: https://sociocracy30.org/

  4. Work progresses on website, brand, and determining a non-placeholder name

This is happening, and we need YOU!

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James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk · Jul 30, 2026
Some updates and stats for #Amiko (#Rails fork): ~650 boosts for the “this is happening” post. That’s *huge* numbers for the Fediverse, in my experience. 98 people in the matrix space as of right now. Should break 100 shortly. Code exploration has started, we’re working out how to do this. If you run a podcast or tech news blog, I’m happy to talk to you about all this, DM me. We need your help, *especially* if you’ve ever been involved in Rails internals. https://matrix.to/#/%23amiko:matrix.org
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RE 🇨🇦 @hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca · Jul 30, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/117007843142581793 I am grateful for this work. I launched my dev career on the framework #Amiko is forked off of. I think it's a very useful framework. As a newcomer to the web development at the time, it made it easy for me to get started, while knowing very little about the underlying technologies, like SQL databases and HTTP. But after the thing that happened in 2021, I have barely spoken its name. The original framework author has only made things worse since then.
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James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk · Jul 28, 2026
Boosted by fedicat @fedicat@pc.cafe
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@Floppy/116940067151749214 This is actually happening; we're building a community to execute a bigotry-free #Rails fork (29 people and increasing at time of writing). Come join us, we need your help and expertise. https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org
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James Smith 💾 @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
I am ashamed of the fact that I’m stuck on #Rails because of the sunk costs of what I’ve already built, as are *so many* other project like Mastodon. We cannot “just move”, the cost is enormous. The Rails core team seem utterly compromised and under his spell. Nobody will speak out. We need a hard #RailsFork. Now. And we need to coordinate to do it together and build a team. I’m in. Who else?
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