FediOnFire was a simple, public-facing project designed to showcase a firehose of public statuses across the network. Roni Laukkarinen developed it as a personal hobby project, in the interest of facilitating network discovery.
This effort took inspiration from FireSky, a Bluesky project designed to show public statuses in an IRC-like layout happening in real-time. In Roni’s own words, his effort was to showcase how beautifully diverse the Fediverse can be.
Trouble Brewing
Unfortunately, part of the Fediverse community viewed the project in a bad light, casting assumptions that FediOnFire was violating user consent, scraping instances, and storing user