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Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But TechCrunch has now confirmed the Pebble instance was recently established by Pebble co-founder and CEO Gabor Cselle as something of a new social experiment. However, members of the Pebble community are involved in the server’s moderation.

Cselle tells us that the community asked the founders to set up a subreddit and a Mastodon instance so they’d have somewhere to go when Pebble shut down, so they did.

“And then something really interesting happened, which is after we started with Mastodon, a bunch of people came over,” he says. One of them, a user only known as “Blobcat” (@[email protected]) posted a link to their GitHub repo where they had styled the Mastodon instance to look just like how Pebble used to. So Pebble.social got a new look and has since grown to a few hundred active users, as well.

“It’s really a testament to the power of open source,” says Cselle.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That’s fun. I hope it grows as much as it can handle.