Google is rowing back their boat on plain disallowing "unverified" developers! While they're saying they want to put it behind an "Advanced flow" and that they "are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion" While this is still a step back from how it currently is, it is a step […]

hey its us were locked the fuck in. dont worry bout stuff :)

Alright, we'll be working on that "directory" of sorts soon, for makko pages that is. If your site was made with makko and you wanna be listed, reply to this with your site's URL and we'll be sure to add it :) this is subject to a vibe-check, if you reply with i love fascism dot com don't […]

Alright, we'll be working on that "directory" of sorts soon, for makko pages that is. If your site was made with makko and you wanna be listed, reply to this with your site's URL and we'll be sure to add it :) this is subject to a vibe-check, if you reply with i love fascism dot com don't […]

We now have a _proper_ public frontend, so that when you link our posts others can see replies, reactions and other stats natively.

In addition to the RSS and Atom feeds on https://starlightnet.work, you can also find RSS, Atom and JSON feeds for this very account if you visit our profile on the web at shrimp.starlightnet.work/@the You can use this to get our smaller-scale announcements in your feed reader, instead of […]

"I can't wait to port makko to the new zig versions :)" the humble dependency that hasn't seen a commit in 7 months: #makko

the starlight network wishes to show you these foxes RE: app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/fd8f8a68-6712-4feb-ad88-70ad9876041b

We've upgraded #forgejo to 13.0.0! Among other things, it can now display our custom emojis in the autocomplete, which isn't a massive thing but is the user-facing thing that we thought was cool in this release ~alexia

Replacing Discord The Starlight Network is joining forces to help work on Polyphony.

The UK is still trying to backdoor E2EE communications and files in Apple's iCloud suite of services. This time, they want it only for UK users, but that doesn't change anything. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/uk-still-trying-backdoor-encryption-apple-users #privacy #uk

The Starlight Network migration is complete! finally, no more horribly old packages and more streamlined configuration, especially around containers

we are back! iceshrimp took...a lot longer than we expected to say the least.

Prosody is migrated! Next up is this very fedi instance. This one _should_ be quick. See ya on the other side!

Next up on the list of services to migrate is Prosody. This will incur some more downtime, during said downtime we won't be reachable via [email protected] on XMPP. We expect this to take a little bit longer.

Next up is a short downtime for Forgejo to move it over as well.

Despite my best efforts, I wasn't able in the slightest to hold the ~1 hour deadline due to unexpected complications with configuring Drasl. For now, Drasl will be down. I'll publish updates once things are ready. ~ Alexia

We've decided it probably makes more sense to move _incrementally_ , not all services at once. As such, the first move will be for our Drasl instance and Minecraft server. Those will go down sometime within the next 20 minutes for no longer than an hour. Other services are unaffected. Check […]

update on this: It was planned, but due to unexpected health complications I couldn't get the time (or sleep) to actually do any of the migrations. We expect to do it this week still, as my symptoms are improving, if nothing gets in the way. ~ Alexia

At the earliest tommorow (i.e in ~12-24 hours), there will be a longer downtime on all of Starlight Network's services. During this time, we may keep status.starlightnet.work online, whereas everything else will enter a maintenance period. **We'll announce a proper expected timeframe soon.** […]

By the way, Google takes feedback on the Android Developer Verification Requirements that are coming soon via a form. goo.gle/Android-verification-feedback You know what to do. Tell 'em what you think. If you need context: starlightnet.work/posts/android-publish-permission.html

Figured it was a good idea to put this out there. starlightnet.work/posts/android-publish-permission.html

That settles it! Whilst the results are quite "mixed" that's still a good handful of people that would be interested so we will definitely have to look into it. No guarantees for this month, it'll probably be next month if anything. Thanks for participating! RE […]

Oh whilst we're at it **Official Starlight Network PSA:** Fuck the Ladybird browser project. Fashtech is not what we need for the open web to thrive. Check out Servo instead.

Quick recap of what we do now that we're bridged: We host services and write software in hopes that it empowers people and other entities alike. our 'flagship' is Makko, a simple SSG and blogging tool intended to be simple and easy.

This account is now bridged to Bluesky at @starlightnet.work As this account is used for announcements and questions alike, we figured it'd be useful to be cross-network. If you're on the bluesky end, we won't see your replies unless you follow @ap.brid.gy, please keep that in mind.