I don't see any posts about it but I just came across https://loforo.com which is a photo sharing site that has joined the #fediverse. You can search for @username@loforo.com already and it seems like there is an active photo sharing community there already.
The first account I came across is @hormeza, so hello there!
Thanks to @1seidla for boosting a post from there! Thats how I discovered this!
@liaizon I can't see how the money works. There's no pricing or mention of anything except "free".
@trevorflowers I am not recommending anyone use this, just that its interesting they joined the fediverse
@liaizon Oh sorry, I didn't mean to imply anything shady. I was idly wondering because I'm curious about how the fediverse works.
@trevorflowers you were wondering how they pay for the website?
@liaizon Based on their blog they seem like a company with paid coders. So, I wonder about how that money and hosting costs are paid.
@trevorflowers @liaizon I guess from the blog it looked maybe like a one person project? But I couldn't really tell. Seems to have been around since 2020 and built from a community of people who used to use soup.io, whatever that was.
@soaproot @trevorflowers I used to use soup too. It was a early tumblr alternative that had a lot of weird cool features
@Iwillyeah @hormeza there is no easy solution to this, if it was mastodon there are apps that now let you load additional posts easily but since this is a new thing with new fediverse support they would have to expose some sort of api to let an app load more.
@Iwillyeah yeah its a serious limitation of the fediverse rn
@tchambers seems fully federated from my tests, I just selected a ton of random accounts and tried them and they all showed up. tested from mastodon, and pixelfed. weird I don't see any mention of them implementing activitypub anywhere...
one quirk is that it shows up as a mastodon instance in fedidb which is certainly is not, but maybe they just copied the nodeinfo code from mastodon and didn't change the server type
