On Hold
Last week we made the hard decision to halt Sociabli. Here's how we will proceed.
The idea of a little service to cross post to Bluesky started with a blog post explaining how to build a Node.js script doing the work for you. Shortly after that, I realized that people liked the idea, but numerous people weren't able to host it on their own. So the idea of a cross posting service was born.
Eventually Sociabli went online and soon had some active users. At first the number of users increased, and so did the costs and especially the time we had to invest to keep the system running. For some months now the number of active users has shrunk, and we had nearly no new signups, while we still had to invest money and time.
Sociabli became too costly and needs too much time to keep it up and running safely, while the interest in our service is shrinking. So we decided to stop the service for now. We shut down the operation on Friday, 08.05.2026.
We deleted all connections and flows on this day.
We're thinking about how we will go on from here, as we still think the IndieWeb is a great thing, and we want to build on it. If you would like to stay up to date, you may want to follow me on Mastodon or Bluesky:
https://mastodon.online/@mauricerenck
https://bsky.app/profile/mauricerenck.de
Thank you for using Sociabli, we hope to be back soon.