They're the mascot for #SharkeyWorld, an instance powered by @Sharkey (cc: @ruud). It's a community of roughly ~120 members, and part of the rapidly growing squad of instances based on this #Misskey fork. #OhHaai
Haai is also the Dutch word for shark, and also is a homophone for a greeting (Hi!).
Special shoutout to our administrator @chikorita157 who has been doing a good job keeping our Sharkey instance (server) running smoothly.
Being a system admin is can seem like a thankless job sometimes, and sometimes it means tracking down minor issues, going over logs, and occasionally dealing with user drama too (I do that for a living, it's not fun).
A friendly reminder that the Fediverse instance (server) is run by a volunteer who does not get paid, does not host ads, and is often paying things out of their own pocket. - All so complete strangers can share their random thoughts, views, beliefs, rants, or sometimes just sh*tpost.
😂 That was odd! When I mentioned @darnell on my #WordPress blog, it pinged my #Flipboard account on my iPhone even though #ActivityPub is not yet activated (I received a push notification, which later revealed nothing 😆).
Important issue, and an interesting discussion has taken place since last year on the #Mastodon side of things. I imagine this issue is also present for #Misskey and most other #Fediverse services, and I wonder if a fix is already in the works or even rolled out for them?
@anianimalsmoe@irfan@robustjumprope When I publish a new blog post on my Anime Blog, the CPU spikes for a few minutes and goes down, I suspect that this might be the issue of Mastodon overloading the servers to generate previews.
That encouraged me & others to donate and attracted corporate sponsors (I think someone just donated $100,000 or ¥15,728,365.80 recently). via @darnellhttps://darnell.moe/notes/9sq22w9724
@darnell@syuilo@darnell misskey has a company behind it, iirc, and no non-profit / community entity (though they could certainly do that)
You only tend to get the 100k donations with tax deductions, hence a 501(c)3 in the US, and hopefully the german non-profit will regain it's non-profit status
Misskey, a decentralized micro-blogging platform, is in need of financial support.
Misskey is not a business, it is a non-profit, not a company.
The only income for the project comes from your donations.
If you like Misskey, please help us continue to develop it! https://www.patreon.com/syuilo
Those who donate a certain amount may have their name added to Misskey's credit.
Thank you for contributing to the future of Fediverse! #misskey