Why did wolfballs shut down? I think it’s worth a blog post to describe why wolfballs shutdown and what plans are for the future. There is a link floating around of my words changed/altered so I want to put a official wolfballs statement that can stay up.
Wolfballs was set up during the death of ruqqus. I needed a place to vent my frustration with covid lockdowns. I loved how much engagement I got at ruqqus.
He honestly makes some really good points. Everywhere you go there’s an implicit and sometimes explicit threat: “you better do what we want or we’re shutting the world down for you and you’ll be all alone”.
He makes some good points about those limitations and then talks about Alex Gleason and his view that nostr is the path for the future.
I’ve got nostr on my phone, I run a nostr relay, but the thing for me it isn’t comfy like my soapbox/rebased instance. I’m hoping with the recent news that Alex will be doing more work with nostr (though that was such a badly written article it might even just be fake, I dunno) that he’ll integrate nostr into soapbox so we’ll that its just another part of the fediverse on my comfy instance rather than a whole other app I cant expect to even use from anywhere I’m not an admin user.
He honestly makes some really good points. Everywhere you go there’s an implicit and sometimes explicit threat: “you better do what we want or we’re shutting the world down for you and you’ll be all alone”.
He makes some good points about those limitations and then talks about Alex Gleason and his view that nostr is the path for the future.
I’ve got nostr on my phone, I run a nostr relay, but the thing for me it isn’t comfy like my soapbox/rebased instance. I’m hoping with the recent news that Alex will be doing more work with nostr (though that was such a badly written article it might even just be fake, I dunno) that he’ll integrate nostr into soapbox so we’ll that its just another part of the fediverse on my comfy instance rather than a whole other app I cant expect to even use from anywhere I’m not an admin user.