@dansup what did you learn from your experiences running a StatusNet server that you carried forward into your other projects or rejected? #fediverse
@Doomscrollπ―πππππππππβ’ By 2016, the software was showing its age, and hard to maintain/update with its custom php backend.
I did start building an ActivityPub plugin for GNU/Social (rebranded from StatusNet) in 2018, but grew frustrated with the lack of participation from the maintainers who didn't want to seem to merge my PRs.
That's when I started Pixelfed, using a modern php framework, Laravel.
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