From it’s Telegram channel:
Hello,
At approximately 21:33 UTC July 26 2021, I have been hit with a cease & desist letter from a law firm repsenting Facebook. The letter was sent to one of my personal email address as well as Barinsta’s public inbox (and as a result, it is published). In response, the source code has been taken down, and all promotional materials within my control has been adjusted to reflect the fact.
While I believe it is nearly impossible to fight a resourceful multinational firm and reinstate the app, we will still try to get as much resources as we could to navigate in this crisis.
At this dire moment, I ask you to do 1 thing: Please let others know what is happening here. Such bullying behaviour against a young university student is in no way excusable. Such bullying behaviour against many internet users is in no way excusable.
It has been an honour of a lifetime to serve as one of the main contributors of Barinsta. I am forever grateful for the countless supporters along the way.
Thank you & Best Regards,
Austin Huang https://austinhuang.me
The letter was posted in the Barinsta GitHub as a sadly notice of the end of the project.
Turn it into a Pixelfed app.
tbh barinsta’s design is great, it would be even better than pixelfed’s official app
This! The app is lovely to use. Would be unfortunate for it to just be destroyed by Fakebook.
This is an excellent idea! I hope it can be re-purposed as such, because the UI looks great (I assume it works just as well too).
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Connection error? That happens to me often, gets stuck on “send” and spams messages on whichever app/page I was on.
Oh god I didn’t know that happened at all lol. Sorry 'bout that…
Damn. This is sad. Thanks for the hard work.
sad to know.
