@silverpill@mitra.social when discussed with Nutomic about this, I made the case that 1b12 is excellent for synchronization. 7888 (and 171b, etc.) are good for backfill, in cases where there is no 1b12 implementation available.

@hexaheximal@mastodon.social that's fair. I also feel a certain responsibility to protect and defend the fediverse from bad actors, so I get being on guard. I've also seen what happens when fedi brings out the pitchforks, though

Hi @robz@toot.robzazueta.com! (Thanks @beaware@social.beaware.live for bringing this to my attention) You're right, our website is more about our self-service hosting option, and that's because that's what pays our day-to-day bills. It's an unfortunate reality of the open-source development model. The project itself is licensed under GPLv3 and has always been this way. Your concerns over Automattic are well-founded and they also worry me. That said, NodeBB is free and open-source, and you are encouraged to self-host it. That has been our mantra from day one, and still remains that way today.

@Kichae I'm not seeing an issue (although I haven't done exhaustive testing) between my test instance and this site. Can you let me know one of your federating categories, so I can try to set up a sync?

why didn’t I think of that myself? Thank you @julian@community.nodebb.org and thank you for this release