So are we seeing the end of of an era of massive centralized social media?

God, I hope so.

Based on their funding post a few days ago, they’re on a digital ocean droplet that costs $18/month or something, so there’s plenty of room to scale that up. Whether or not they can afford it or get enough donations to keep it up is debatable. Point is the hosting requirements are fairly low.

I can confirm I’m having the same experience. Had to kill and restart the app for the sidebar to update.

Last activity was two years ago, and the maintainers are in this thread saying they’re focused elsewhere.