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Why you should leave Sharkey?

1st, the instability is something every Sharkey instance experiences. I have never joined or witnessed a Sharkey instance that does not experience random 502 errors.

The development once tried to claim this was from the upstream, Misskey - It is not. I use both Misskey dot Io (the flagship) and Misskey dot De. Misskye is not the problem. The problem is Sharkey, and this issue has been going on for nearly a year. The previous release even experienced a memory leak, which caused some Sharkey instances to come to a crawl at best, or for the few unlucky, crash.

2nd, the development has exchange lead developers three (3) times now. The leadership has become a revolving door of uncertainty.

3rd, the 2nd lead developer kept asking people for money so they could achieve goals, for example, owning their own server, which they used to play Minecraft and the Join Sharkey website is still offline. That lead developer raised around 2k from various users (such as myself) for that server, and ended up leaving the development 4 months later, taking the server with them, after failing to raise money to attempt to change Sharkey in an LLC corporation (as opposed to a non-profit).

4th, the development is dramatic and toxic.

Instead of actually working on Sharkey, most of the development team spends their free time trolling people. Especially those who call them out on their nonsense.

5th, they are not alleys of the LGBTQ+ community.

In their efforts to troll people, whenever someone makes a valid point, they wrongfully claim you are being homophobic. This is not productive nor supportive of the LGBTQ+ community, and they should be ashamed of themselves, being LGBTQ+ themselves. False flags are not helpful and truly harm those who may be suffering legitimate discrimination.

I personally, suggest CherryPick as an alternative to Sharkey. The development has been ongoing for three (3) years with the same developer, it took is a fork of Misskey. There is a script to help convert your Sharkey install to CherryPick. It offers even more features and functions that Sharkey, and most importantly, they're not looking to either get rich quick or troll people.

But even if you do not take my suggestion. I would caution anyone from using Sharkey. The Fediverse should be a fun place for everyone and a safe place to express yourself. I do not believe the Sharkey Development adds value to the Fediverise.

I invite anyone (everyone) to check my post history. In the past, I have said a lot of about Sharkey. I once used to praise the development, until I truly got to know the inner workers.

#Sharkey #Fediverse #Fedi #Misskey #LGBTQ #LGBTQ+ #Mastodon #CherryPick
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