And as a little post-script to this thread, if #Pinetta sounds interesting to you and you liked what you read above, please feel free to:
▫️ follow @pinetta 📌
▫️ star its prototype repo on @Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/pinetta/proto-pinetta/issues) ⭐, and
▫️ join its @matrix space: https://matrix.to/#/#pinetta-space:matrix.org 💬 ❤️

Anyway, tl;dr (and pardon the digression?):

#Pinetta's not dead! As the pet shop owner said, "it's just resting".

Personally I'd love to hear from like-minded people who think they could either contribute or make connections with experienced people on this. People who can work with #Python and #Django for the prototype, people who know #CommunityBuilding and #TrustAndSafety. And, in the end, if it's meant to happen, it will happen, and we can stop making jokes about it being vaporware.

But to be honest, there are some significant challenges.

First, I don't think I can keep it going on my own, full-time. I have a career and I don't intend to be a rockstar like @dansup or in the news like @Gargron. If #Pinetta is going to happen, it needs a community.

Second, that community needs to be switched on to the realities I mentioned, and ready to tackle things like #ContentModeration, #Federation, and the rapidly changing landscape of decentralized social networks.

So, where does that leave #Pinetta? Well, just because it won't solve the problems of racial, national, sexual, or economic #prejudice on its own, doesn't mean that it's not a good idea. There's been a lot of interest in the project. A lot of people want to see it happen. We've had a lot of ideas, too—like opt-in, tagged commercial posting that would allow small-scale creators to show off their stuff and grow support networks while allowing users to choose what, and how much, they want to see.

As I mentioned the other day, #Pinetta has been on hold for a bit as I get through a super busy time IRL.

For context, I had thought about a Pinterest clone for Fedi since a while ago, but I only really started talking about the project after paying close attention to the trouble that black and indigenous people were having with #racism on Mastodon. Basically, I came to feel that Mastodon's structural shortcomings weren't going away, and that there was the desire for something to address them.