2024-12-21 15:09 UTC
Replies (21)
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2024-12-21 15:17
@colin@muffin.industries Thank you for the detailed write-up! (Still going through it.) And I'll add that you made the right call not handing the server over, fully respect that! (Saying this as one of the people who offered to take over.)
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@roddie@roddie.social 2024-12-21 15:22
@colin@muffin.industries Thanks again for all the bots and toots - I also really enjoyed this write-up, a great insight into the instance
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@jandi@mastodon.social 2024-12-21 16:17
@colin@muffin.industries I made it to the bottom! Thanks for all your work, and for this thoughtful post. Your final paragraphs resonate. 👍
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@kurth@social.tchncs.de 2024-12-21 16:29
@colin@muffin.industries Bye bye botsinspace, will miss you
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@faoluin@chitter.xyz 2024-12-21 16:35
@colin@muffin.industries I made it to the bottom! Thank you for posting this. :blobfoxheart:
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@kayserifserif@sunny.garden 2024-12-21 16:53
@colin@muffin.industries thanks for sharing! really appreciate all the thoughtfulness around the community 💓
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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place 2024-12-21 16:57
@colin@muffin.industries the final paragraphs do resonate a lot! also the mental toll of doing moderation. thanks for writing this up!
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social 2024-12-21 17:02
@colin@muffin.industries thank you for running this server with the integrity and transparency you have! i wish every instance sunset story arc were at least as reasonable as this one.
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@fluffy@plush.city 2024-12-21 17:13
@colin@muffin.industries your note at the end about people forgetting how to build small things is similar to a sentiment I’ve been screaming for years. It’s totally fine to build things that work for a community that’s not expected to grow! Small communities are good, actually! The problem with Twitter isn’t that it’s centralized but that it’s Twitter! Etc etc. People gotta get out of the growth mindset and remember sustainability. Anyway. Thank you for everything you did.
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@settima@zirk.us 2024-12-21 17:15
@colin@muffin.industries Thank you for your hard work. Your write-up gives that work a much needed face. Thank you 🤖 💙
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@jleedev@mastodon.sdf.org 2024-12-21 17:18
@colin@muffin.industries 😕 keeping an archive online 🤔 replacing all the dns records with a magnet uri
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@sugar@chitter.xyz 2024-12-21 17:44
@colin@muffin.industries thank you again for the work you did in running the service!
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@alys@selfy.army 2024-12-21 18:56
@colin@muffin.industries The closest thing I’m aware of to phpBB for the fediverse is gotosocial, but i don’t think it’s quite as easy to set up. Anyway, thanks for botsin.space!
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@misty@digipres.club 2024-12-21 19:44
@colin@muffin.industries Thank you again for all your hard work running the server!
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@ildave@mastodon.social 2024-12-21 20:01
@colin@muffin.industries I appreciate a lot the part about phpBB, forums were and still are a very important part of the free web.
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@sindarina@ngmx.com 2024-12-22 00:57
@colin@muffin.industries Thanks for sharing 🙂
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@box464@mastodon.social 2024-12-22 13:39
@colin@muffin.industries One of the first things I did when joining the fediverse was attempt to make a bot on your server. I had so much fun with the process, and learned a ton at the same time! Thanks for hosting botsin.space and wish you the best.
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@djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology 2024-12-22 13:55
@colin@muffin.industries me reading your “Some Final Thoughts” section to every single person in this corner of the fediverse
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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org 2024-12-22 15:14
@colin@muffin.industries Thanks for running botsin.space and for sharing your thoughts about it!
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@rodti@mas.to 2024-12-23 11:34
@colin@muffin.industries ❤️
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@cjust@infosec.exchange 2025-07-17 14:59
@colin@muffin.industries I enjoyed the write up of the birth, life and retirement of botsin.space. Especially pertinent, I think Right now, there's basically no equivalent to phpBB for the fediverse. I think this is likely true in part because everyone's brains broke in the early dotcom era, and we all collectively decided that something wasn't worth doing online unless it could scale up to 10 million users.