Tesseract has been discontinued
Tesseract has been discontinued
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GitHub - asimons04/tesseract
It seems that the dev burned out.
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The average Lemming has the nuance of a wrecking ball
He’s not wrong lol. I can imagine how much worse it is as an admin. It’s unfortunate that Tesseract is going down with the ship. I remember I was among the first to provide feedback when he first posted it on lemmy.
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Also described himself there
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This project has been discontinued and the repo archived. I am done with Lemmy, the Fediverse as a whole, and have no desire to continue developing for the platform or (especially) the demographic thereof.
Wow, what the heck happened? Do we know the dev's lemmy username for any clues?
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(especially) the demographic thereof
Yeah! Fuck the demographic! Still beats reddit nonsense.
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It's a combination of a burn out and a close friend (also moderator of the 30rock community on Dubvee) ending up in a coma, it seems.
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Where are you seeing mention that the coma contributed to the choice to discontinue? I see in the !30rock@dubvee.org post that the community will be shut down despite the fact that the only mod is not able to even protest that decision or anything, but no other mention.
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Yes, I posted his message in my post's body. https://dubvee.org/post/3788765
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Thanks for that context.
The specific "burned out" is a common killer among folks that try this: community management
"Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad if not worse. Too many people here seem to think that because it's not "corpo social media" that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that."
I can't say I blame them. People can be horrible. Managing a community also means managing the worst of people. I had a former employer that did community management of a dating site. The level of mental trauma the front line workers endured was more than I could imagine. This is also why I completely understand instance admins that follow an aggressive blocking/banning approach. Beehaw put up tall walls and defederated aplenty. Blahaj.zone actively bans based upon user activity that is even on other unrelated instances. I can't fault either of these approaches because the alternative is dealing with the worst users en masse.
I hope that instance owner/manager gets some of that much deserved rest.
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Apparently, reading the details on there - he might not shut it down.
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Sounds like someone wasn't prepared for the reality of human interaction on the internet.
I mean its completely fair to say that they don't want to deal with it, but also what did they expect?
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No idea, but it's not an active instance so idk what happened.
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He's sick of the morons on Lemmy.
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The average Lemming has the nuance of a wrecking ball and the maturity of a junior high edge lord
another lemming that doesn't want to perticipate in the far-left hate machine that lemmy has descended into
it's the same reason that user numbers on lemmy are slowly but surely declining
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it's pretty insane that people on here want to openly discuss assassinations and freak out at the mods when told they cant do that here
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lol
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Read his rant. It just sounds like he’s mad at us for being mean towards the poor wittle billionaires/nazis.
Considering how few references there were in the post, and your projection onto it. I think you may be part of the group he's talking about that is causing him to close up shop. Its just my speculation though. If I'm right, how does that make you feel? Are you happy he's closing up the instance and leaving the Fediverse or are you sad that a heavy contributor to the Fediverse is leaving?
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Even if I would agree with your principles, this kind of comment is what is tiring for moderators to deal with at scale.
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Considering this is a Svelte project, it probably wouldn’t be too hard for me to fork (I’m a Svelte and SvelteKit dev). I’d definitely rewrite the UI, cause the current UI is… unpolished.
How much support could I expect to fork this project? Is there anyone that would be willing to help?
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Better contribute to Photon, which Tesseract was forked from originally.
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Tesseract is very much different from Proton by now however
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I'm working on a new fediverse software but I'm mostly a backend dev. But I have been learning Svelte/Kit to try and write a frontend. Just putting it out there in case you feel inspired to work on something entirely new :)
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There are terrible people everywhere and in particular everywhere online.
This is why I would never be bothered moderating and I am reluctant to release anything to the public of what I do for my own enjoyment. Cheers to moderators and people that post their art and comics and other stuff online.
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Thought this was about this tesseract
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Me too. If It had been, I would have needed another way of ALT'ing screenshots from other social networks.
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Same
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Same here
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Sorry not to hijack, but I’m in the process of adding PieFed support to my Lemmy client, if you’re looking for a new home. You can try it out at blorpblorp.xyz. I have a lot of work to do before I can live up to these more mature clients like Tesseract. Tesseract had some really nice media embeds that I’m missing.
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rip to the best client 🥹 and thank you for everything you've done PTZ.
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Godspeed to @ptz@dubvee.org, hopefully we'll meet again virtually some day 🫡
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Universal link so that you remain on your own instance: https://threadiverse.link/dubvee.org/post/3788765
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OP's link works in Raccoon, the threadiverse one doesn't.
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Same with Mlem.
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Same for Eternity. I think it's for use with a normal browser.
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rip
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That was supposedly the best front-end we had, right? Sad to hear--I hope I can become good enough to help revive projects like this.
On a sidenote, what other frontends are to be used in the meantime? I'm hoping one of the few is still being maintained somewhat-
You are on PieFed.social, so you do not have "frontends" like Lemmy does, you (we) have "themes" - go to Account -> Settings -> Themes, like Trans Pride, Card Shadow, etc. I use "PieFed".
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Not to advertise, but you could try Photon. It's what Tesseract was forked from wayyy back as me and the tesseract dev's philosophies split.
It's more opinionated, and features are carefully organized compared to Tesseract where plenty of shortcuts and links are given (which isn't bad at all, just targets different preferences).
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Photon is solid and nice
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best? i dunno about that. it was an option, tho.
i prefer Photon, or just the default.
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It sounds like he was severely trolled. Those aren't real people, they're either bots or paid accounts to make people leave. There are ways to counter act it, it's too bad he's given up. I wish him the best.
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unfortunately real people can be really shitty too. did you forget about gestures at everything?
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Not necessarily. Some men really do just want to watch the world burn.
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Oh for sure, I guess I should have said for the most part.
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Does it though?
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That's a real shame, and a huge loss.
Friendly reminder that the only way lemmy can be successful is if we create a culture that is enjoyable to be a part of. It sounds like his time here was not so positive, and that's deeply saddening.
I wish him the best with his future endeavors
Much more important than the enjoyable culture is the material aspect - how much work each developer has to do. Nice vibes help delay burnout but rarely eliminate it. Or they let it happen with a smile on the face.
Pay the developers instead, so they can reduce hours worked elsewhere, if you can. Or contribute code, if you can. This isn't aimed at you personally, but anyone reading. I can't contribute code but I can pay so I do that.
That's incredibly important too! I think people would be hesitant to work for even decent donations if people are assholes, but you're 100% right. I guess it really comes down to appreciating the people around you
You should appreciate the humans that create this social space by being here and being social, and appreciate the people who create this social space by building the space itself
Thank you for making that point, people being paid makes a huge difference.